Quotes About Existence

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

Like the statue of David, our Authentic Swing already exists, concealed within the stone, so to speak." Keeler broke in with excitement. "Then our task as golfers, according to this line of thought…" "…is simply to chip away all that is inauthentic, allowing our Authentic Swing to emerge in its purity.

The acquisition of a condition lends significance to one's existence. An illness, a cross to bear. Some people go from condition to condition; they cure one, and another pops up to take its place. The condition becomes a work of art in itself, a shadow version of the real creative act the victim is avoiding by expending so much care cultivating his condition.

Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.

We all fight wars—in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.

We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. Those

Eternity is in love with the creations of time. – William Blake

Eternity is in love with the creations of time means, to me, that in some way these creatures of the higher sphere (or the sphere itself, in the abstract) take joy in what we time-bound beings can bring forth into physical existence in our limited material sphere.

Strife is life's oldest and most holy fundament.

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of my life?

Know that all that is," Bagger Vance's voice came again as if in a dream, "flows from the union of the Field and the Knower.

When one of tal Kyrte misses steppe and sky, she longs not just for their beauty but also their cruelty. For among the free people the foreawareness of one's death, and heaven's indifference to it, is the keenest and most brilliant pleasure, rendering all precious. This is the supreme mystery, the fact of existence itself, before which mortals may only stand in silence.

In fact, we are servants of the Mystery. We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us.

no one has ever died from contradictions.

Wilde thus had a wonderful political rationalization for his extravagantly privileged existence: just lie around all day in loose crimson garments reading Plato and sipping brandy and be your own communist society . . .

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God