Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

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 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.

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

... 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.

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

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

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

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

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.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle!

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence.

Life without chocolate is just an existence

Love is the wine of existence.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

Man's existence precedes his essence

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10]

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics