Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

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 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 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?

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

You are my heart, my life, my entire existence.