Quotes About Existence

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.

Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun.

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.

There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.