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 ~
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. ~By David McCallum ~
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. ~By Jim Morrison ~
What is the value of your existence? ~By Stephen Evans ~
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~By Erich Fromm ~
Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake. ~By John Boehner ~
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 ~
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 ~
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence. ~By Henri Poincare ~
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. ~By George Berkeley ~
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 ~
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ~By Milan Kundera ~
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ~By James Bryce ~
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence. ~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
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 ~
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ~By Theodore Dreiser ~
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 ~
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. ~By Thomas Aquinas ~
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~By H. L. Mencken ~
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. ~By Uta Hagen ~
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ~By George Santayana ~
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. ~By John F. Kennedy ~
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 ~
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~By Pam Brown ~
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ~By Kenneth Joseph Arrow ~
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 ~
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 ~
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. ~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. ~By Meryl Streep ~
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 ~
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 ~
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence. ~By Meir Kahane ~
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 ~
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~By Neil Gaiman ~
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 ~
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. ~By Madame de Stael ~
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ~By David Lodge ~
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. ~By Jim Harrison ~
If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence. ~By Darren L. Johnson ~
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 ~
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried. ~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. ~By Laurence Housman ~
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. ~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. ~By Lord Byron ~
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 regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be. ~By Maggie Gallagher ~
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ~By Eric Hoffer ~
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 ~
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia. ~By David Chalmers ~
The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God. ~By William F. DeVault ~
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. ~By Amiri Baraka ~
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 ~
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. ~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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 ~
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis. ~By John Wycliffe ~
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 ~
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 ~
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way. ~By Bodhidharma ~
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 ~
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. ~By Leon Kass ~
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. ~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ~By Thomas Merton ~
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 ~
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. ~By Giacomo Casanova ~
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 ~
I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression. ~By Adolf Galland ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer. ~By Lori Loughlin ~
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 ~
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. ~By William Henry Hudson ~
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 ~
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. ~By Voltaire ~
A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. ~By Kemal Ataturk ~
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 ~
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
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 ~
May my soul bloom in love for all existence. ~By Rudolf Steiner ~
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 whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. ~By Buddha ~
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake. ~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ~By Charles Dickens ~
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ~By William Cowper ~
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