Quotes About Existence

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

True time is four-dimensional.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

Who wants to live forever?

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear." She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying.