Existence Quotes - Page 10

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Existence begins in every instant.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

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

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.

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?

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

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

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

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.

The material universe exists only in the mind.