Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one… — Robert Anton Wilson
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the… — Laurance Labadie
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but… — Emma Goldman
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms… — Anthony Gregory
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. — Richard P. Feynman
Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru… — Ramana Maharshi
Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth. — Sri Chinmoy
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. — Gustav Mahler
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do… — Ayn Rand
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. — Humberto Maturana
Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as… — Humberto Maturana
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is… — Guy Debord
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the… — Georg Simmel
The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances,… — J I Packer
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new… — J C Ryle
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its… — Gerda Lerner
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of… — Dainin Katagiri
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. — Leon Bloy
The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world… — Mircea Eliade
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is… — Paul von Hindenburg
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it… — Steven Pressfield

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