Existence Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Non Existence

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• The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Reality, Way

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Influence, Perceive

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

  Robert Lanza

  Views, Law, Space

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.beliefnet.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

  Robert Lanza

  Law, Spectrum, Grows

  "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

  Bill Laswell

  Careers, People, Relate

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• I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

  Denis Leary

  Guy, Boring

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• The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

  Ang Lee

  Men, Symbolic Meaning, Mysterious

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

  Annie Lennox

  Soul, Trying, Calling

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• Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Real, Government

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• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  Haniel Long

  Desert, Incentives, May

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Garden, Community, Doe

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• Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Night, Reality, Thinking

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  Maimonides

  Greatness, Space, Spheres

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.208, Moses Maimonides

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• Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Humility, Men, Self

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• I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

  Phil McGraw

  Mean, Names, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

  Ewan McGregor

  Ideas, Solitary, Sculptors

  "Return of the Jedi: Ewan McGregor" by Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. January 3, 2012.

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• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

  Power, Evil, Analysis

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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• In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

  Wilson Mizner

  Clever, Battle, Talent

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• It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Halloween, Believe, Autumn

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Loathing, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.65, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Stars, Nebula

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

  John Podhoretz

  Country, War, Reality

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• I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Political, Foundation

  Interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France), en.kremlin.ru. July 12, 2006.

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