Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence,… — David Hilbert
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. — Alexander Hamilton
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on… — Rajneesh
Man's existence precedes his essence — Jean-Paul Sartre
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence -… — Rajneesh
God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer… — Rajneesh
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having… — Rajneesh
Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing to existence, because… — Rajneesh
Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity… — Rajneesh
Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way. — Rajneesh
A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just… — Rajneesh
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises — Ramana Maharshi
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved.… — Bernard Lewis
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Happiness is the object and design of our existence. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about… — Antonya Nelson
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those… — Irenaeus of Lyons
The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a… — Kyle Smith
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there… — H. P. Blavatsky
One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but… — Thomas Ernest Hulme
Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in… — Silver RavenWolf
Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,… — James Dwight Dana
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig

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