Existence Quotes
4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.
— Peter Sloterdijk
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first…
— Adolf Galland
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
— L. Neil Smith
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If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however,…
— John Hagee
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Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus…
— Kenneth Copeland
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Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than…
— Friedrich Engels
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the…
— Twyla Tharp
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Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the…
— Theodor Herzl
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Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so…
— Eric Schmidt
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I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the…
— James Luther Adams
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Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of…
— James Luther Adams
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God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
— Paul Tillich
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The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines…
— Romano Guardini
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I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art.…
— Michael Jackson
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Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep…
— Hari Kunzru
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Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of…
— John Trudell
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I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll…
— Charles Stross
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The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a…
— Charles Stross
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Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of…
— John Brown
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Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried…
— Tracey Emin
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