Existence Quotes

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.