Top 86 Quotes About Non Existence
#1. To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
Ayn Rand
#2. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
Ayn Rand
#3. I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all the way, as far as mouldiness, bloatedness, obscenity were concerned.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#4. Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#5. For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
David Cronenberg
#6. The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof. To know something for certain there must be proof. To hold to a belief there must be evidence. Until
then, the only actual reasonable position is agnosticism.
Lewis N. Roe
#7. (those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence,
Mary Beard
#8. It is though we had wanted to add to the already existing proofs of God's Existence, a new and finally convincing one: the universal destruction that follows on assuming God's non-existence.
Wilhelm Ropke
#9. We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.
Abdu'l- Baha
#10. Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
Angela Davis
#11. The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.
Idries Shah
#12. Magic is a non-existence to success;but the wand that create magic is your mind
Tbreeze Madi
#13. Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#14. 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.
Paul Von Hindenburg
#15. The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
Aldous Huxley
#16. So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;
Lao-Tzu
#17. Our adaptation to the natural forces
is a question of existence or non-existence.
We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they
adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves
to nature and her laws.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
#18. Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
R.D. Laing
#19. Again, you may look upon life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm of non-existence. And, in any case, even though things have gone with you tolerably well, the longer you live the more clearly you will feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment, nay, a cheat.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. Some people write to make something ugly beautiful, some write to leave a part of themselves to be remembered, some write to give words soul and meaning, and some write to exist in non-existence.
Sam Madison
#21. Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.
Laozi
#22. Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#23. Terrified at Non Existence, for such they deemd the death of the body, Los his vegetable hands outstretch'd; his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength siez'd the Sun; his left hand like dark roots cover'd the Moon, and tore them down, cracking the heavens across from immense to immense.
William Blake
#25. Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
Meister Eckhart
#26. Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
Marcus Aurelius
#27. Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.
Richard Dawkins
#28. A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.
Ayn Rand
#29. Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior." "Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir.
Patrick DeWitt
#30. It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.
Lee Smolin
#31. Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?
Immanuel Kant
#32. A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#33. Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
Emmanuel Levinas
#34. Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
Anton Chekhov
#35. science feeds our perpetual curiousity and claims that nothing exists until 'proven'. Science cannot prove the existence or non-existence of the human soul any more than a thermometer can prove the colour red or King Henry the eight could discourse on electronics.
Bryan Islip
#36. I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Richard Russo
#37. God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
Giacomo Casanova
#38. The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.
Richard Dawkins
#39. When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.
Peter Stone
#40. The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
Maimonides
#41. All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Maimonides
#42. In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection
Mulla Sadra
#43. They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence.
Flor Hernandez
#44. To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#45. The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.
Charles Spurgeon
#46. There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How can you hate something that is not there? Why would you persistently prove to people the non-existence of a being really not there?
Gerard Verschuuren
#47. That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.
Maimonides
#49. The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.
Steve "Lips" Kudlow
#50. The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist']
Herman Bondi
#51. There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#52. The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#53. The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy
#54. Only those parts of the collective consciousness with strong, non-conflicting inner visions change the physical world. They simply will things into existence.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#55. Each existence depends on something else ... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence.
Shunryu Suzuki
#56. It might be comforting to assume that intolerance is an aberration within Islam but discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslim is in fact integral to orthodox Muslim teaching, and the more profound issue to the serious-minded is not the existence of sectarianism but its extent.
Michael Coren
#57. There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
Clarice Lispector
#58. The physical is only a small aspect of existence. In this cosmos, not even 1% is physical - the rest is non-physical.
Jaggi Vasudev
#59. You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.
Ramana Maharshi
#60. Until the Second Coming, sin will remain a part of earthly existence. And as long as there is sin, there will be suffering and pain. But suffering by persecution is not a sine qua non of the church. If it is, there are few if any true churches in North America today.
Keith A. Mathison
#61. You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.
John Leguizamo
#62. Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.
Sam Farr
#63. From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.
Gary Lutz
#64. Racism and violence were non-existent in this world,
When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas
Marieta Maglas
#65. The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
Paul Tillich
#66. The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.
Richard Dawkins
#67. Om is the signature sound of this Universe. It is the soundless sound of existence.
Banani Ray
#68. So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.
Nan Shepherd
#69. Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was someone for whom even happiness would cry for, mourning the death of his sentiments and murdering the existence of his soul.
Faraaz Kazi
#70. Mind gives us an existence in duality; Spirituality gives us the knowledge in non-duality. Unless we narrow this gap, we will never experience the ultimate reality.
Gian Kumar
#71. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business. Yet we have no other world to live in. And
Matt Haig
#72. When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature
Tzvetan Todorov
#73. The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.
Banani Ray
#75. 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!
Marcel Leroux
#76. Om is the creative vibration, the seed vibration. The whole existence is hidden within it, just as a giant tree is hidden within a seed.
Banani Ray
#77. Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
Arthur Miller
#78. The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
Nikola Tesla
#79. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
Ayn Rand
#80. People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
Criss Jami
#81. Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.
Auliq Ice
#82. Come to Me now with humble hearts. Because until you do this, you cannot benefit from My Mercy or receive the graces I long to provide you with. My Voice is calling out now to all non-believers to accept the existence of My Eternal Father.
Maria Divine Mercy
#83. The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
John Allen Paulos
#84. The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
Epicurus
#86. 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
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