Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Savour your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.