Quotes About Existence

Yes, pain meant life. But life did not mean pain.

It all happened. It wasn't a dream. And I'm still alive. I guess that's something.

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

non fui, fui, non sum, non curo—" I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

Faith is a mystery and an experience of the divine in the world, not a solution to a set of problems.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.

No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

We feel and know that we are eternal.

By reality and perfection I mean the same thing.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

By that which is self-caused , I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any part thereof, a force for existence (existendi vis) greater or less than before, and by the presence of which the mind is determined to think of one thing rather than another.

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.

By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself: in

El alma humana, cuantas veces percibe las cosas según el orden común de la naturaleza, no tiene conocimiento adecuado ni de sí misma, ni de su cuerpo, ni de los cuerpos exteriores, sino tan solo un conocimiento confuso y mutilado