Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.

I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

I believe that the existence of the classical "path" can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The "path" comes into existence only when we observe it.

I am not your justification for existence.

I am visible to Google. I link therefore I am.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.

I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

I don't over-think my existence. I'm a very imperfect person, like most of us are. I'm also a very busy person. I have a family. I have a career. I'm a professor at NYU. I have a full life for which I feel grateful every day.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.

I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?