Existence Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.”

— Charles Olson

“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not…

— Paul Hoffman

“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..”

— Viktor Frankl

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous

“Man's dearest possession in life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as not to be…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“I was daily his delight,                  Rejoicing before him always,            Rejoicing in his inhabited world                  And delighting in the human race.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.”

— Confucius

“Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something greater after life was to forget that life…

— Nina George

“III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning…

— Marcus Aurelius

“There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be…

— Coretta Scott King

“Man’s beginning and man’s end would always be attended by only a few. Those that bore him at birth and those that bore him…

— Frederick Downs Jr