Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
~By Ernst Mach ~
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 ~
I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
~By Adam Rich ~
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 ~
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
~By Rex Hunt ~
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 ~
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
~By Lech Walesa ~
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.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
~By Carlos Santana ~
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
~By Lucy Lawless ~
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
~By George Santayana ~
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
~By Nicholas Lea ~
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
~By David Lodge ~
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
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.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
~By Peter Camejo ~
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
~By William Ames ~
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
~By Walter Scott ~
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
~By Vernon Howard ~
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
~By Cordell Hull ~
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
~By Elizabeth Janeway ~
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
~By Susan Sontag ~
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 ~
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
~By Andre Breton ~
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 ~
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
~By Lloyd Cutler ~
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 ~
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
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 ~
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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 ~
Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
~By Slick Rick ~
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
~By Robert Fulghum ~
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 ~
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
~By David Bohm ~
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 ~
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
~By James Newman ~
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
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 ~
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
~By George Santayana ~
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
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 ~
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
~By John Berger ~
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
~By bell hooks ~
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
~By O. Henry ~
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
~By Louis Althusser ~
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
~By Charlotte Bunch ~
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
~By Peter Davison ~
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
~By David Bowie ~
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
~By Adam Clarke ~
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
~By Prince Charles ~
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
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 ~
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
~By Charles Ives ~
Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.
~By Sam Farr ~
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
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 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 only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
~By David Packard ~
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
~By Charles Dickens ~
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
~By James F. Cooper ~
Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
~By David Chalmers ~
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
~By Paul Tillich ~
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
~By Thomas Erskine ~
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
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