Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

The real man is the one Unit Existence.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

The question is how the questioner exists.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.