Quotes About Existence

We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie.

Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Being born was the most influential thing that's ever happened to me, for myself.

It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.

We're not inherently anything but human.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Life and art are inseparable.

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

Live fully in the instant.

As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

For all we know, we are the only shot the universe has at intelligent self-organization. Therefore, we need to take it seriously.

It would be selfish to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.