Quotes About Existence

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

I hope when I'm 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn't recognise me.

Obviously there's some kind of life elsewhere. I don't know whether it would look like anything we recognise but I do believe in aliens.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.

The U.S. government does not recognize the existence of political prisoners in our country. The identity of political prisoners is concealed and, consequently, their right to justice is denied.

I think most of my life I have not felt recognized.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

In ECW, hardcore wrestling wasn't done just for the fun of it. It was done for a purpose, for a reason. And for me, it was done to exist and produce a revenue for my family.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.