Quotes About Existence

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.