Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than… — John Welwood
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence,… — Sri Chinmoy
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â… — Aleister Crowley
I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an… — Aleister Crowley
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have… — Andrew Jackson
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us… — Andy Hertzfeld
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community. — David Platt
The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society. — David Suzuki
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and… — Freeman Dyson
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in… — Albert J. Nock
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a… — Paul Goldberger
It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in… — Yohji Yamamoto
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning… — Rollo May
At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something… — Michael Ende
The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes… — Jane Roberts
The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is… — Jane Roberts
Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members… — Peter Breggin
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group… — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence. — Mariella Frostrup
There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense… — Mariella Frostrup
With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my… — Christophe Agou
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end… — Bryan Magee

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