Existence Quotes

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

What is the value of your existence?

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.