Best His Existence Quotations
137 His Existence quotes by 112 unique authors
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If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to…
— Derrick Jensen
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I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as…
— Bill Vaughan
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
— Eric Hoffer
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
— Albert Schweitzer
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The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face…
— Georg Simmel
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
— Cormac McCarthy
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He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.
— Paulo Coelho
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Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those…
— Bertrand Russell
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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and…
— Voltaire
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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they…
— Meg Rosoff
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Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
— Simone Weil
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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
— H. L. Mencken
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He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which…
— Jack London
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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that…
— Paul Ricoeur
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God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that…
— J.P. Moreland
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As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This…
— Jack London
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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
— Kim Edwards
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Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can…
— Cormac McCarthy
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