Existence Quotes - Page 11

• I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

  David Chalmers

  Character, Thinking, Our World

  "Zombies and consciousness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2011.

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• If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

  Margaret Cho

  Feminist, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Meaning Of Life, Facts, Reason

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Born, Knows

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Enlightenment, Literature, Path

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1325, e-artnow

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• Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Body, Finance

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• That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Artist, Trying, Modern Life

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• 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

  Reality, Self, Mind

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Years, Mind, Kind

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• Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

  Rachel Cusk

  Encouragement, Winning, Needs

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• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  Rachel Cusk

  New Relationship, Events, May

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• Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Birthday, Intelligent

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.30, OUP Oxford

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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

  David Duchovny

  Believe, Conspiracy, Extraterrestrial

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• Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Men, Doe, Culture

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Wise, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Gun, Car

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• I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Doctrine, Sides

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• To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

  Robert Fulghum

  Humanity, Cages, Bars

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.261, Ballantine Books

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• The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Agreement, Slavery, Covenant

  Resolution adopted by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 27 Jan. 1843.

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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Adversity, Order

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• In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Class, Community, Black

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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