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Quotes About Existence

And a one-night stand made you feel as if you had just been invented. You were with someone who couldn't quite believe in your existence … In longer relationships you end up having to think up all sorts of fantastic fantasies to be excited by the person. but now, the first night you are enough. Who really wanted to know themselves? Instead I could exist happily in this world of first impressions.
~ Heather O'Neill
As the essence of Matter is Gravity, so, on the other hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is Freedom.
~ Hegel
Eternity will not be nor has it been, it is. Spirit is the we that is I or the I that is we.
~ Hegel
When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, in which everything one has held dear is submerged.
~ Hegel G W F
We can only make sense of ourselves in relation to someone or something. To be a person, we must be recognized as a person.
~ Hegel Georg Willhem Friedrich
El yo es por ello la existencia de la universalidad totalmente abstracta, lo abstractamente libre. Por eso, el yo es el pensar en cuanto sujeto y siendo así que yo estoy igualmente en todas mis sensaciones, representaciones y estados [subjetivos], resulta que el pensamiento está presente en todas partes y atraviesa como categoría todas estas determinaciones.
~ Hegel, G. W. H.
Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen
~ Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Ilmu pengetahuan tidak bisa mengungkap seluruh misteri dunia ini. Tetapi dunia memberi jawaban dengan caranya sendiri.
~ Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
~ Heidegger
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
~ Heidegger
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
~ Heidegger
the more concretely I am in the world, the more genuine the existence of deception.
~ Heidegger Martin
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.
~ Heinrich Heine
Sag mir, was bedeutet der Mensch? Woher ist er kommen? Wo geht er hin? Wer wohnt dort oben auf goldenen Sternen?
~ Heinrich Heine
The Purpose of Life is Life itself it
~ Heinrich Heine
I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world!
~ Helen Fielding
She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things it had believed itself to possess.
~ Helen Hooven Santmyer
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.
~ Helen Humphreys
In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.
~ Helen Keller
Security is a myth. Mankind as a whole does not experience it, nor does it exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller
Out of the uncharted, unthinkable dark we came, And in a little time we shall return again Into the vast, unanswering dark.
~ Helen Keller
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.
~ Pico Iyer
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
~ Henry Miller
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
~ Marilyn Manson