Being Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

“it is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.”

— David Hume

“Nonbeing plays almost an equally important role as Being. By lacking form, the Nonbeing offers life to the form. By lacking limits, the Nonebeing…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.”

— Parmenides

“Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable…

— Christos Yannaras

“There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.”

— William Barrett

“How you are defined does not confine who you can be.”

— Kitty Downer

“Oneness is not sameness.”

— Lois Farfel Stark

“. . . the ignorant and the simple minded, not knowing that the world is what is seen of Mind itself, cling to the…

— Thomas Hoover

“You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to…

— Todd Crawshaw

“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the…

— Zeno