Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
~By Arthur H. Compton ~
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
~By Rex Hunt ~
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
~By Michael Shermer ~
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
~By Denis Waitley ~
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.
~By Michael Newdow ~
A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
~By Kemal Ataturk ~
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
~By Mason Cooley ~
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
Existence precedes and rules essence.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.
~By Michael Medved ~
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
~By Robert Peel ~
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
~By Prince Charles ~
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
~By Christopher Fry ~
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
~By Milan Kundera ~
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
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.
~By Ang Lee ~
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
~By David Hilbert ~
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
~By Georg Brandes ~
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
~By Todd Solondz ~
It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
~By Frederick Buechner ~
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
~By William Blake ~
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
~By William Henry Hudson ~
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
~By Romain Rolland ~
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
~By Paul Getty ~
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.
~By Bill Laswell ~
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~By Erich Fromm ~
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
~By Aristotle ~
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
~By Milan Kundera ~
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.
~By Max Planck ~
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
~By Christopher Fry ~
North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
~By John Searle ~
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
~By Aly Khan ~
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
~By Henry Miller ~
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
~By Susan Hampshire ~
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Married life is an existence with bars around it.
~By Al Goldstein ~
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
~By Jiang Qing ~
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
~By Joseph McCabe ~
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
~By Abraham Kuyper ~
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.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
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.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
~By Paul Davies ~
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
~By Lin Yutang ~
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
~By Robert Burns ~
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
~By Lori Loughlin ~
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
~By Milan Kundera ~
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
~By George Stigler ~
The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.
~By William F. DeVault ~
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
~By Auberon Herbert ~
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
~By David Cronenberg ~
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.
~By Greg Ginn ~
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