Habits Quote by Martin Heidegger

The very word "exist" derives from "to step forth, to stand out".

— Erik Naggum

“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

All existence is awareness & forms of awareness, within awareness, the self in disguise. There is nothing else.

— Anonymous

“To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk…

— Frank Herbert

There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain…

— Barry Long

If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could…

— Medard Boss

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“The word Being explains nothing, but nor does God. Being, however, has the advantage that it is an open concept. It does not reduce…

— Eckhart Tolle

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it…

— Francine Pascal

“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man…

— Milan Kundera

“[T]he changing, functional, causal, and conditioned world, present to ordinary sensory and mental experience, was what was ultimately real. To be real [...] means…

— Stephen Batchelor

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning,…

— Georges Bataille