Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Is there an existence that is only mine?

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as a blip on the intelligence radar. They could be so advanced that we are to them what worms are to us.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

It's coexistence or no existence.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence.

I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.