Best His Existence Sayings
137 His Existence quotes by 112 unique authors
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Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth…
— John Quincy Adams
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The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of…
— Thomas Paine
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Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.
— Peter Deunov
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[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole…
— Ayn Rand
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Can anyone be a father without beginning to be one? Yes, one who did not begin his existence. What begins to exist begins to be…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they conceded the only…
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.
— Pete Gill
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Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the…
— Paul Harvey
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The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand…
— Laozi
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But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center…
— Hermann Weyl
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
— Donald Knuth
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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in…
— Louis Sullivan
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A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which…
— G. H. Hardy
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man…
— Benjamin Haydon
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Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike…
— Julian Baggini
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Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false…
— Herbert Marcuse
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In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all…
— Derek R. Audette
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Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the…
— Arthur Koestler
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Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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