Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. — Fidel Castro
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences — Anagarika Govinda
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any… — Robert Fisk
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. — Eddie Rickenbacker
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. — Gerhard Richter
When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its… — Stefanie Schneider
True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some… — Simon Newcomb
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its… — Christopher Dawson
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man;… — Jeremy Bentham
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had… — Sebastian Faulks
There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which… — John Archibald Wheeler
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into… — John Dalton
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our… — Tom Robbins
The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For… — Tom Robbins
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… — Thomas Ligotti
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,… — Thomas Ligotti
I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed… — Vsevolod Meyerhold
This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because they opposed Obamacare - and they… — Jim Jordan

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