Quotes About Existence

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.

Here or nowhere is our heaven.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.