Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10]

My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

Once our hearts are open, all existence appears naturally beautiful and harmonious.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when this kind of monotony and silence, this most narrow of existences, had been preferable. Then again, once, I’d never known anything else.

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

One of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons - including me - was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.

One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence.  At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.