Quotes About Existence

Since the receipt of the missive in the morning, Boldwood had felt the symmetry of his existence to be slowly getting distorted in the direction of an ideal passion. The disturbance was as the first floating weed to Columbus—the contemptibly little suggesting possibilities of the infinitely great.

in his view there could come of his interference nothing worse than what existed at present. And yet to every bad there is a worse.

It's hard to have anything, isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Primum vivere deinde philosophari - First one must live, then one may philosophize.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise .. . without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, I feel: therefore I exist. I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them matter. I feel them changing place. This gives me motion. Where there is an absence of matter, I call it void, or nothing, or immaterial space. On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need.

Lista este viaÈ›a. De jur-împrejurul marginilor ei scorojite se deschide pr?pastia.

In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth, wife, land. Those who possessed these had beatitude unchallengable. Other men had accidental, random life. Nothing better.

The more orthodox of the ghetto had a slogan — 'An hour of life is still life.

You talk like a Rosicrucian, who will love nothing but a sylph, who does not believe in the existence of a sylph, and who yet quarrels with the whole universe for not containing a sylph.

Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt.

But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so vulgar? That was to say: they seemed so fit for life, so good at it, that they would never die, as if they were unworthy of the consecration of death.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Ako je lutao, bilo je to zato, što za neke ljude uopšte nema pravog puta. Kad bi ga pitali, šta zapravo kani postati, davao bi razli?ite odgovore, jer je obi?avao re?i ( a bio je to ve? i napisao), da nosi u sebi mogu?nosti za hiljadu na?ina života, zajedno s potajnom svesti, da su to zapravo same nemogu?nosti.

A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries

Thomas Buddenbrook's existence was no different from that of an actor - an actor whose lfe has become one long production, which but for a few hours for relaxation, consumes him unceasingly.