Existence Quotes

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

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

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.