Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

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.

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.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Question boldly even the existence of God.

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.

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.

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

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

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

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.

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.

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.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

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

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

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.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.