Existence Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are…

— Henry David Thoreau

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions…

— Etty Hillesum

“Do not find any duality. The wise do not see “this” and “that,” they do not perceive the “relative”. Completely give up distinctions—the “world”…

— Robert Wolfe

“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so…

— Leo Tolstoy

Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of…

— C.P. Cavafy

“Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live…

— Ayn Rand

God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who…

— Rama Swami

The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now…

— Hu Shih

The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.

— Maimonides

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility,…

— Ayn Rand

“The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.”

— Rick Hanson

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person,…

— George Berkeley