Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable. — Jean-Michel Cousteau
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. — Adam Pascal
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability… — Jim Al-Khalili
I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take… — Maya Angelou
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of… — Carl Sagan
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of… — George MacDonald
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is… — John Baillie
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating… — Armand Salacrou
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to… — Immanuel Kant
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and… — Lewis Mumford
You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. — Rajneesh
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish… — James Madison
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of… — Thomas Jefferson
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere,… — Swami Vivekananda
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves… — Doris Grumbach
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth… — Rudolf Steiner
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. — Alexis de Tocqueville
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle
It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you… — James A. Baldwin

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