Existences Quotes

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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are… — Thomas Jefferson
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,… — Roderick Murchison
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here… — Carl Jung
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences… — Honore de Balzac
How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. — Louis Kahn
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than… — Karl Marx
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences — Anagarika Govinda
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end… — Louis Pasteur
It didnâ€™t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what donâ€™t deserve… — Caleb Carr
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. — Frances Wright
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the… — Angela Carter
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna
Grant, Goddess, thy protection, And in protection, strength, And in strength, understanding, And in understanding, knowledge, And in knowledge the knowledge of justice, And in… — Iolo Morganwg
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because… — Swami Vivekananda
Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives. — Paul Rusesabagina
Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and… — Etienne Gilson
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. — Zeena Schreck
When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life… — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on… — Remy de Gourmont

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