Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the… — Esther Hicks
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he… — Roberto Calasso
It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is… — Christa Wolf
The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of… — Allen West
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized… — Cordell Hull
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel… — Milan Kundera
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health,… — Thomas Bernhard
I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If… — Scott Weiland
Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. Â It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name… — Brennan Manning
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some… — David Brainerd
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the… — Otto Weininger
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in… — Brian Swimme
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence? — Sri Aurobindo
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that… — Sri Aurobindo
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can… — Lionel Terray
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. — Eric Ries
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a… — Benjamin Tucker
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our… — Murray Bookchin
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this… — Lysander Spooner
Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift… — Sun Ra
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence, — Calvin Coolidge
The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in… — Ernst Haeckel
The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang… — Brian Greene

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