Quotes About Existence

Man has no nature; what he has is history.

Religions can also clash with humanism by valuing souls above lives, which is not as uplifting as it sounds. Belief in an afterlife implies that health and happiness are not such a big deal, because life on earth is an infinitesimal portion of one's existence;

What about a more abstract sense of "spirituality"? If it consists in gratitude for one's existence, awe at the beauty and immensity of the universe, and humility before the frontiers of human understanding, then spirituality is indeed an experience that makes life worth living—and one that is lifted into higher dimensions by the revelations of science and philosophy.

No one can deny the difference between life and death or the existence of suffering, but it takes indoctrination to hold beliefs about what becomes of an immortal soul after it has parted company from the body.

Even the emotional comfort of a belief in an afterlife can go both ways. Would life lose its purpose if we ceased to exist when our brains die? On the contrary, nothing invests life with more meaning than the realization that every moment of sentience is a precious gift.

nothing invests life with more meaning than the realization that every moment of sentience is a precious gift.

Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once. Space is nature's way to keep everything from happening to me.

Hobbes believed that people could escape this hellish existence only by surrendering their autonomy to a sovereign person or assembly. He called it a leviathan, the Hebrew word for a monstrous sea creature subdued by Yahweh at the dawn of creation. Much depends on which of these armchair anthropologists is correct.

En resumen, sin la posibilidad de sufrir, lo que tendríamos no sería una dicha armoniosa, sino que, al contrario, careceríamos por completo de conciencia.

Nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptic orbit.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

Love is the face and body of the Universe.

The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.

Love and help all the children, all the days of your existence. They need us.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.