The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
~By Ernie Harwell ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
~By Rex Hunt ~
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 ~
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
~By Rudolf Steiner ~
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
~By Karl Kraus ~
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
~By Friedrich Schleiermacher ~
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
~By Henry James ~
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
~By Bret Harte ~
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
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 ~
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
~By Jiang Qing ~
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
~By Charlotte Bunch ~
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
~By Charles Dickens ~
The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.
~By William F. DeVault ~
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 ~
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
~By Anatole France ~
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
~By Max Frisch ~
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 ~
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
~By James Monroe ~
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
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 ~
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
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 ~
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 ~
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
~By Charles Scott Sherrington ~
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
~By Todd Solondz ~
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 ~
No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
~By Michael Newdow ~
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 ~
It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
~By Esther Williams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
~By George Carlin ~
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
~By Thom Mayne ~
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
~By Carson McCullers ~
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
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 ~
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~By Erich Fromm ~
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
~By Jim Fowler ~
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
~By Evan Parker ~
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 ~
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
~By Emily Bronte ~
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 ~
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
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 ~
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
~By Morris West ~
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 ~
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 ~
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
~By Lord Byron ~
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
~By Lao Tzu ~
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
~By Frederick Jackson Turner ~
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 ~
I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
~By Adam Rich ~
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
~By Charles Mackay ~
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.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
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 ~
I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.
~By Julian Clary ~
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
~By Robert Casey ~
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
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 ~
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
~By John W. Gardner ~
The first and by far the most likely pattern is a return to agrarian existence.
~By Harrison Brown ~
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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