Existence Quotes - Page 5

• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

  David Bellamy

  Nature, Money, Trying

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• Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Fate, Dying, Experience

  Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

  Jean-Luc Nancy

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Jean-Luc Nancy (2000). “Being Singular Plural”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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• The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Forget

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• Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.

  Longchenpa

  Buddhist, Laughter, Real

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• I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

  Hope Edelman

  Family, Mom, Photography

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• The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Knowledge, Knowing

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 30, 2014

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• Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.

  Etienne Gilson

  Science, Understanding, Doe

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• I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.

  Jean Seberg

  Life, Confidence, Perseverance

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• The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Inspirational, Creativity, Creating

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Love, Independent, Loving Someone

  Robert A. Johnson (1983). “We, understanding the psychology of romantic love”, Harper San Francisco

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• I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Thinking, Self

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• ...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Thinking, Organization

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• If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

  David Hume

  School, Math, Numbers

  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding sec. 12, pt. 3 (1748)

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• A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Atheist, Godly

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• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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• Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

  Norman Mailer

  Love, Life, Change

  1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no. 23, Winter.

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• The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Criminal Mind, Spirituality

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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  All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

  Inspirational, Science, Intelligent

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, April 16, 2008.

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• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Future, Mean

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Future, Mean

  "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.

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• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  Sholem Asch

  Forgiveness, Memories, Moving

  Sholem Asch (1939). “The Nazarene”

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