Quotes About Existence Philosophy

#1. Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.

Gerald M. Givens

#2. The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

Norman Thomas

#3. A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

Dagobert D. Runes

#5. For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must first
understand the nature of the force behind its existence.

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#6. A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Margaret Atwood

#7. Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.

Franklin Gillette

#8. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude.

Viktor E. Frankl

#9. The only coherent explanation of contingent intentionality is the existence of some necessary being, an agent from whom all other intentionality derives but who does not require further explanation.

Angus J.L. Menuge

#10. Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

Stephen King

#11. Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence.

Debasish Mridha

#12. As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

Diogenes Laertius

#13. The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension ... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#14. Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one-a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.

Friedrich Ratzel

#16. We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Judith Butler

#17. Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

Gilbert Simondon

#18. Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. A philosopher once said, "It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results." Well, they don't!

Richard Feynman

#20. The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the very existence of this field and the corresponding censorships.

Pierre Bourdieu

#21. I look myself in the mirror and see what I am inside. In a glimpse, I find the perfection in the imperfect evidence of the former existence.
Katia M. S.

Katia M. S.

#22. Creation of mankind, the power of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Passionate embrace your sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#26. The true desire and secret of existence is to live in peace, love, and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#28. It's an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it's the soul
But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself
In its way of existing.

Alberto Caeiro

#29. Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

Marty Rubin

#30. We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

Kane Freeman

#31. Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness

Avis J. Williams

#32. Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

Emmanuel Levinas

#33. That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that ...

Swami Prabhavananda

#34. Lifetime is a sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved ... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.

A.J. Ayer

#36. Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence

Silje Akselberg Iversen

#37. Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.
Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

C. G. Jung

#38. The glory of life is strength of existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. The human desire to experience union with others is rooted in the specific conditions of existence that characterize the human species and is one of the strongest motivators of human behavior.

Erich Fromm

#40. The philosopher says
I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:
No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

Henry Adams

#41. You are educated when you learn to coexist with others
And as a result you enhance the whole existence.

Debasish Mridha

#42. My poems - they sprang from the depths of my being.

Roseville Nidea

#43. To see the beauties, mysteries and magics of your existence look at it with intense love, child's wonder and joyful heart.

Debasish Mridha

#44. I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

Hannah Arendt

#45. Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#47. I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.

Rene Descartes

#48. There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Milan Kundera

#49. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

Ayn Rand

#50. How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going?

Denis Diderot

#51. The only thing I know is that a person who is not busy with others is one who recognizes the truth of existence.

Sadegh M. Angha

#52. Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.

Duncan McNaughton

#53. NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Ambrose Bierce

#54. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there.

Debasish Mridha

#55. It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

Stephen Hawking

#56. Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Holy moment is a sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.

Lewis N. Roe

#59. In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

Henry Martin

#60. Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us ... not simply the official existence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#61. You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

N.K. Jemisin

#62. It's not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it's that blue-collar philosophy shouldn't exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not the justification of ones existence when your belly screams for sustenance? People are hungry god damn it!

Mick Lexington

#63. We came to this world to enjoy the magic of love, the beauty of existence, and the joy of life. We did not come to this world to look for money and fame.

Debasish Mridha

#64. We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

Parmenides

#65. Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

Dejan Stojanovic

#66. If you encase yourself in stone like a fossil, you'll have an existence, but not a life.

Deborah O'Brien

#67. To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#68. One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

T. E. Hulme

#69. Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Sidney Hook

#70. I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.
Nor can I say that I know him not ...
Nor do I know that I know him not.

Swami Prabhavananda

#71. What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Soren Kierkegaard

#72. This world does not exist to you when you are missing.

Debasish Mridha

#73. A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence.

Debasish Mridha

#74. Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed.
In fact Angels have no religion as we know it ...
Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever
existed on Earth ...

Thomas Aquinas

#75. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#76. The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.

Simone De Beauvoir

#77. If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

Dave Eggers

#78. My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

Sting

#79. Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary.

Nicolas Saperstein

#80. In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.

Frederick Lenz

#81. Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

Albert Camus

#82. Love fuels the existence of a divine being

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

Ayn Rand

#84. The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.

Eraldo Banovac

#85. Questions about God's existence, self disclosure, saving action and almighty power reminded me of my inadequacies. For me the theo in theology had become little more than a question mark. I could confidently discuss philosophy, psychology and social change, but God made me uneasy.

Thomas C. Oden

#86. It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Jean Toomer

#87. Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

#88. Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor
by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence
and every achievement is an expression of it.

Ayn Rand

#89. We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#90. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

Frank X. Barron

#91. I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state ... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.

Ronald Reagan

#92. Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

Raheel Farooq

#93. To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Soren Kierkegaard

#94. could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also to feelings of hope and confidence?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#95. The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.

William Lane Craig

#96. Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Malcolm Bradbury

#97. Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.

Nenia Campbell

#98. Maybe the question isn't whether God exists, but how we act. If we all act like God doesn't exist, then for all intents and purposes God doesn't. But if we act like God does exist, then in essence, She does.

Chris Hollenback

#99. you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true

Avis J. Williams

#100. The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.

Indiana Lang