Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

Life without chocolate is just an existence

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

Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence.

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

Love is the wine of existence.

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

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

Man's existence precedes his essence

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

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.

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?

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

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

Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

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

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

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.

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

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

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]

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

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

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

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

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

Nepotism is the bedrock of social 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.

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!

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

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

Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

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

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

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.