Quotes About Existence

The total number of such worlds are, as I said, something of the order of a trillion, or 10^12, a one followed by twelve zeros, of which Earth represents just one, all in the family of the Sun. And our star, of course, is one of a vast multitude.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream, you manufacture illusions!

Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort. A man don't have that comfort, he's the only living thing that conceives of death, that knows what it is.

All of these lived and died upon the earth and nothing was done about it.

The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world more generally.

Creation is not simply past; it is not just associated with the beginning.

C]reation is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only in the beginning.

God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not wholly determined by the past; God does bring the new into existence. [...] God also creates in and through creaturely activity.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.

I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears

The twentieth-century linguistic revolution," says Boston University anthropologist Misia Landau, "is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a tool for bringing the world into existence in the first place. Reality is not simply 'experienced' or 'reflected' in language, but instead is actually produced by language.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.

There's an enormous mystery hovering over our existence that's only unraveled beyond the grave.

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

Los recuerdos no cambian y cambiar es ley de todo lo existente.

It is death that gives life its meaning.

Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you'd come?