Quotes About Existence

The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the very existence of this field and the corresponding censorships.

Cette stupeur va durer quelques secondes, pendant lesquelles tout le monde va quitter la vie, s'absenter, perdre le fil de l'existence.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

You went to some trouble to be born, and that's all.

The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle ("Tennis")

L'homme ne naît que pour mourir et il n'est jamais si vivant que lorsqu'il meurt. Mais sa vie n'a de sens que s'il donne sa vie au lieu d'attendre qu'elle lui soit reprise.

the only thing each of us lives and loses is the present.

Entre el estoicismo y Nietzsche se abre un abismo. Mientras que el «sí» estoico es consentimiento a la racionalidad del mundo, la afirmación dionisíaca de la existencia de la que habla Nietzsche es un «sí» dado a la irracionalidad, a la crueldad ciega de la vida, a la voluntad de poder más allá del bien y del mal

You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know that there's a diversity problem.

One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.

We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work of our invisible God. We have become so accustomed to trees, mountains, sky, air, water, flowers, animals, vegetables and people that we no longer see them for what they are - God's work.

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development; it is vital to our existence.

Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

I will acknowledge that Israel would not exist were it not for the United States. For Israel, that relationship is vital. It's important for the U.S., but it is vital for Israel.

All the things that we had initiated in the first few albums still existed on 'Technical Ecstasy.' The band had not lost any of its vitality.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.