Quotes About Existence

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. —Sir James Jeans

Using a slogan from ANT, you have 'to follow the actors themselves', that is try to catch up with their often wild innovations in order to learn from them what the collective existence has become in their hands, which methods they have elaborated to make it fit together, which accounts best define the new associations that they have been forced to established.

And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite "time" being included in the title Being and Time

It's called 'You Just Don't Exist.' I'm co-starring with Winifred Hailey. It's like, a romantic comedy.

Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

Kita semua akan mati, semuanya. Menakutkan bukan? Alasan itu saja seharusnya membuat kita saling mencintai, tetapi tidak. Kita diteror dan digilas oleh hal-hal yang remeh dalam hidup; ditelan oleh kehampaan.

Quién te ha dicho que no puede haber amor verdadero, fiel y eterno en el mundo, que no existe? ¡Que le corten la lengua repugnante a ese mentiroso!

Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it.

Katie: We live; we die. Always right on time, not one moment sooner or later than

Reality doesn't wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary:

He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...

Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.

Yo nací un día que Dios estuvo enfermo, grave...

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

Absurdity, only you are pure.

Oh always, never to find the never of so much always.

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

Remain in the eternal nebula, there, in the polyessence of a sweet nonbeing.

Kita berasal dari ketiadaan dan akhirnya kembali pada ketiadaan.

Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. She had always thought that meant other gods were false, and so not to be worshipped. Not once had she considered it could lend credence to their existence, and was meant to establish a hierarchy of belief.

the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

understand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like 'To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything