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Existence Quotes
"That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence."
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"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
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"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
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"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."
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"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
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"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."
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"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
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"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
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"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."
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"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."
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"The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence."
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"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
"Explore the infinite possibilities in existence."
"What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!"
"You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life."
"Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
"From the beginning, man could look up at a vast universe dotted by innumerable stars to find every evidence that he was nothing. This evidence only grows stronger as science and technology record an expanse of galaxies filled with planetary solar systems beyond any visible end. Man is but a grain of sand lost on an endless seashore, and yet he believes with conviction in his own greatness. He is either a divine soul intuitively aware of his inherent, limitless potential-or he is a blind fool."
"The world's existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize him; you cannot say, 'This is wrong'. You cannot even think it. Everything is under nature's management."
"Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice."
"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
"There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves."
"I simply can't look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less."
"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."
"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
"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."
"The important thing is not to survive, but to live."
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