Quotes About Existence

Time is the least thing we have of.

Time is the least thing we have.

All thinking men are atheists.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Do I know what a man is ? Do I know how a man is supposed to die ? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived ?

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

La luz que es energía y no materia. El big-bang creó la energía y la energía creó materia. También materia invisible a tu alrededor y dentro de ti. De átomos de estrellas tú... Y entre tú y el firmamento no hay línea divisoria.

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake

The goal of life is to gain an idea of what life is. In the absolute sense, of course, that changes nothing, according to the priests - but it helps our journey.

Of course, no one is easier to terrorize than the person who believes that everything is over when his fleeting phenomenon is extinguished.

Irgendwie drängt sich auch dem ganz einfachen Gemüt die Ahnung auf, daß sein Leben in einen ewigen Kreislauf geschaltet, und daß der Tod des einzelnen gar kein so bedeutungsvolles Ereignis ist.

Life is opinion," says Marcus Aurelius.

but rather with a concentration of being, and with that we enter a different order.

We live life merely at its edge: it is but a battlefield where the struggle for life is fought. It is a remote fort, hastily built in the dimension of the citadel into which we shall retreat at death.

In the close proximity of death, blood and the earth, the spirit takes on harsher features and deeper colours. Existence itself, in all its strata, is more sharply threatened right up to that almost forgotten kind of hunger against which each economic system fails, such that life itself represents the choice between downfall or conquest.

Un espíritu terrible ha borrado aquí todas las cosas superfluas y creado un trasfondo digno del cuadro que acabo de imaginar. Aquí el ser humano vuelve a convertirse necesariamente en un fragmento de la Naturaleza, que lo somete a sus leyes inescrutables y lo utiliza como una criatura hecha de sangre y músculos, de garras y dientes.

It is easier to go into the battle in the midst of such beauties of nature than when surrounded by a dead and cold winter landscape. Somehow, it comes to one quite simply that one's existence is part of an eternal circuit, and that the death of a single individual is no great matter.

The primary concern of mathematics is number, and this means the positive integers…. Mathematics belongs to man, not God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer exists, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself.

C'è in me quello che si trova in molti uomini del mondo, amori, spari, qualche frase piena di spine, nessuna voglia di parlarne. Siamo dozzina noi altri uomini. Speciale è solo vivere, guardarsi di sera il palmo di mano e sapere che domani torna fresco di nuovo, che il sarto della notte cuce pelle, rammenda calli, rabbercia gli strappi e sgonfia la fatica.

La faccia umana è la superficie di un pianeta

Man has two necessary fundamental characteristics, the instinct of his own preservation, without which no being could exist, and the instinct of the preservation of his species, without which no species could have been formed or have continued to exist.