Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

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

Nobody loves life like an old man.

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

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

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

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.

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

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.

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 one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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