Existence Quotes
4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors
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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all…
— Hideki Tojo
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Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not…
— Austin Osman Spare
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To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making…
— Dion Fortune
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Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that…
— Maria Montessori
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It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve…
— Caleb Carr
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You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in…
— Julius Evola
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The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the…
— Jenny Saville
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve…
— Yukio Mishima
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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.
— Jim Rogers
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The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet…
— Daniel Pipes
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief,…
— Aberjhani
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There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of…
— Paul Ricoeur
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I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
— Ernst Mach
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
— Vernon Howard
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Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
— Juvenal
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
— Oliver Lodge
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There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in…
— Evan Parker
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
— Bill Mollison
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In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)…
— Philip Gourevitch
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Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part…
— Miles Franklin
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Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no…
— Mary Douglas
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