Quotes About Existence

There is no God, there are only humans who imagine the possibility of gods.

What do the stars believe in, Zainab? Where do the dead horses go, what do the birds worship, and what do the rivers live for?

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

Trapped in the blood, athirst for air, Christ, who once was employed as single Son of God Now finds Himself among three billion on a billion Brother sons, their arms thrown wide to grasp and hold and walk them everywhere Now weaving this, now weaving that in swoons

You make to die You are the dead You the assassin of yourself

I believe the universe created us we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

So the real answer to any fundamental question is experience itself.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

philosopher Kurt Gödel reached a similar conclusion in his 1931 "incompleteness theorem." We are thus left with the perplexing situation of being able to define a problem, to prove that a unique answer exists, and yet know that the answer can never be found.

Fredkin believes that the universe is very literally a computer and that it is being used by someone, or something, to solve a problem. It sounds like a good-news/bad-news joke: the good news is that our lives have purpose; the bad news is that their purpose is to help some remote hacker estimate pi to nine jillion decimal places.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. —LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003

Fredkin was quoted by Robert Wright in the 1980s as saying, There are three great philosophical questions. What is life? What is consciousness and thinking and memory and all that? And how does the universe work? …

Dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life? —HAVELOCK ELLIS

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.