Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.

We are not here to love just one person, we are here to love everything in existence.

We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God.

What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.

When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.