Existence Quotes - Page 12

• My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Israel, Years

  "Leadership Begins With Character". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Caring, Individuality, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

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• This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Art, Evil, Joy

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• I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

  Bede Griffiths

  Saws, Made, Centre

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• At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

  Stanislav Grof

  Mass Destruction, Greed, Humanity

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Progress, Usual, Resources

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.59, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  Jon Hamm

  Believe, Long, Parent

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• This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

  Hermann Hesse

  Feelings, Contentment, Harmony

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• Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Talking, Adults

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• All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Wagers, Life Is, Bohemian

  "Christopher Hitchens to Charlie Rose: I'd do it again" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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

  Sidney Hook

  Philosophy, Hook, Surveys

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• We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Atheist, Believe

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• Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Education, Philosophy

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Science, Thinking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Japan, People

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• Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

  Naveen Jain

  Creativity, Fire, Polio Vaccine

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• Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

  Naveen Jain

  Community, Hunters, Quests

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• For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

  William James

  Men, Immortal Life, Life Is

  "Essays in Psychical Research".

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• Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

  Meir Kahane

  Target, Torah, This Life

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

  Harvey Keitel

  Struggle, Understanding, Rewards

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• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Umpires, Judging, Decision

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• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Travel, Stars, Fall

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• For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Reality, Events, Doe

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• A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

  Milan Kundera

  Doe, Ethics, Morality

  New York Review of Books, July 19, 1984.

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