Our Existence Quotes
237 quotes by 198 authors
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.
— John Boehner
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the…
— Vanna Bonta
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access…
— Deepak Chopra
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Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the…
— Pope John Paul II
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The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves…
— Doris Grumbach
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Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a…
— Sarah Schulman
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
— Pema Chodron
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
— Frederick Salomon Perls
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The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.
— Isamu Noguchi
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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need…
— Eric Hoffer
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I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life…
— Antony Hewish
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Happiness is the object and design of our existence.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental…
— Justus von Liebig
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The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.
— Beau Brummell
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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief…
— Antony Hewish
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