« All Existence Quotes · Thomas Berry's Page
Existence Quotes by Thomas Berry
- The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that…
- The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the…
- The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all…
- There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.…
- In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness…
- The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars…
More Existence Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac