Best Own Existence Quotes
115 Own Existence quotes by 90 unique authors
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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation…
— Thomas Paine
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Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward -…
— Malcolm X
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An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.
— Robin Gibb
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But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
— Apuleius
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Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Spirit has his own existence and personal function in the inner life of God and the economy of salvation: his task is to bring…
— Unknown Author
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Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.
— Hamza Yusuf
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It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out…
— Carl Jung
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
— Adyashanti
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A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
— Isaac Asimov
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Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my…
— Isaac Asimov
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
— Gregory Maguire
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own…
— Albert Einstein
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I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.
— Woody Allen
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The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
— Stefan Zweig
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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival…
— Oscar Wilde
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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence,…
— Jean-Pierre Melville
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God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.
— Kedar Joshi
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The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.
— Frederick Lenz
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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
— Bede Griffiths
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as…
— E. M. Forster
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless…
— Alan Alda
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
— Erich Fromm
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