Quotes About Existence

I've got no religious beliefs at all.

I'm not a religious person.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Remember that I am a human.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

Spaceflight gives us a chance to reflect on the context of our existence. We are reminded that we are human before any of our differences, before all of the lines are drawn that divide us.

It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.

I like to be reminded that life is going on.

Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.

Love is one of the only reminders besides pain that things are real. It's one of the only things worth fighting for.

Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

I exist because I am expendable. In all honesty, it's because if I get hurt, I can be replaced.

Seeing clients as people with goals and desires helps you to understand their perspective, animating their existence beyond a line item in a sales pipeline report.

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.