Quotes About Existence

I'm down for indefinitely chilling as long as I'm not self-aware during it. That seems like it could be torture on some level but a lot of people pray for that so who knows.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

The idea that "there's something we don't know," given a certain wave function, is an outdated relic of our intuitive insistence that what we observe is what really exists. Quantum mechanics teaches us otherwise.

The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a simple motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is.

We could be living in a computer simulation like in The Matrix, and the true external reality could be something very different than we suppose.

should also worry that he is being dreamed. (In the Hindu Vedanta tradition, all the world is a dream of Brahma.)

Are you sure you're not a Boltzmann Brain? Or at least, do you know your local environment didn't recently fluctuate into existence? How do you know you're

Life is a process, not a substance, and it is necessarily temporary. We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it. This

This book is about the nature of time, the beginning of the universe, and the underlying structure of physical reality.

According to quantum mechanics, what we can observe about the world is only a tiny subset of what actually exists.

There may be no ultimate answer to the "Why?" question. The universe simply is, in this particular way, and that's a brute fact.

We don't create the world by our actions, our actions are part of the world.

A person is a diminutive, ephemeral thing, standing smaller in comparison with the universe than a single atom stands in comparison with the Earth. Can any one individual existence really matter?

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. —Friedrich Nietzsche

Cuanto más sabemos sobre el mundo, más pequeños e insignificantes para su funcionamiento descubrimos que somos.

Descubrimos que no somos los protagonistas principales de la vida en el cosmos, sino un minúsculo epifenómeno, que hemos florecido durante un breve instante sobre la ola del aumento de entropía que va del big bang al silencioso vacío que le espera al futuro universo.

No encontraremos propósito ni significado en las leyes de la naturaleza, o en los planes de ningún agente externo que hizo que las cosas sean como son; nos corresponde a nosotros generarlos.