Existence Quote by John Searle Download Open image “Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.” — John Searle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existence Life
It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“If anything is to exist at all, then the Original Thing must be, not a principle nor a generality, much less an ‘ideal’ or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If something does not exist, then it makes it very difficult to give it a definition.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Anything does not exist until it is created. You create it” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on — John Searle Copy Share Image
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by… — John Searle Copy Share Image
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing — John Searle Copy Share Image
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a… — John Searle Copy Share Image
You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer. — John Searle Copy Share Image
How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents? — John Searle Copy Share Image
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed — John Searle Copy Share Image
"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France. — John Searle Copy Share Image
Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
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