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Quotes About Existence

Begin all over again? It would be no good. It would all turn out the same—all happen again just as it has happened. For certain people are For certain people are bound to go astray because for them no such thing as a right way exists.
~ Thomas Mann
We come out of darkness and return to darkness, with some experiences in between. But we don't experience the beginning and the end, birth and death. We are not subjectively aware of them, they exist only in the world of objective events—and that's that.
~ Thomas Mann
Die Freiheit existiert, und auch der Wille existiert; aber die Willensfreiheit existiert nicht, denn ein Wille, der sich auf seine Freiheit richtet, stößt ins Leere.
~ Thomas Mann
All the days are nothing but the same day repeating itself—or rather, since it is always the same day, it is incorrect to speak of repetition; a continuous present, an identity, an everlastingness—such words as these would better convey the idea.
~ Thomas Mann
but just as little might one say that they had been derived from organic nature.
~ Thomas Mann
So long as we are, death is not; and when death is present, we are not. In other words, between death and us there is no rapport; it is something with which we have nothing to do - and only incidentally the world and nature.
~ Thomas Mann
But the beginning and the end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely n the category of objective events, and that's that.
~ Thomas Mann
Le temps n'a aucune réalité. Lorsqu'il vous paraît long, il est long, et lorsqu'il vous paraît court, il est court, mais de quelle longueur ou de quelle brièveté, c'est ce que personne ne sait.
~ Thomas Mann
la conciencia del paso del tiempo, que, ante la monotonía ininterrumpida, corre el riesgo de perderse y que está tan estrechamente emparentada y ligada a la conciencia de la vida que, cuando la una se debilita, es inevitable que la otra sufra también un considerable debilitamiento. Se
~ Thomas Mann
Man himself is a mystery, and all humanity rests upon reverence before the mystery that is man.
~ Thomas Mann
Est vrai ce qui convient à l'homme. En lui, toute la nature est concentrée, lui seul a été créé dans toute la nature, et toute la nature n'est faite que pour lui.
~ Thomas Mann
What was one day, taken for instance from the moment one sat down to the midday meal to the same moment four-and-twenty hours afterwards? It was, to be sure, four-and-twenty hours—but equally it was the simple sum of nothings.
~ Thomas Mann
i poj?? z przera?eniem, ?e u kresu wszechrzeczy jest jedynie cia?o, k?y i pazury.
~ Thomas Mann
e se gli accadeva di sbagliar strada, ciò era perchè per alcuni uomini non esiste una strada giusta. A chi gli chiedeva che cosa intendesse fare nel mondo, dava risposte contraddittorie, perchè, come soleva dire (ed anche questo l'aveva già annotato)m egli portava in sè la possibilità per mille modi di esistenza, insieme alla segreta consapevolezza che, in fondo si trattava di altrettante impossibilità.
~ Thomas Mann
Se dice que esperar es siempre largo. Pero también es igualmente corto, porque se devoran cantidades de tiempo sin que se las viva ni se las utilice en sí mismas.
~ Thomas Mann
En el hombre está comprendida la naturaleza entera, sólo él fue creado auténticamente en toda la naturaleza, y toda la naturaleza fue creada sólo para él. El hombre es la medida de todas las cosas y su felicidad es el criterio de la verdad.
~ Thomas Mann
Spiritul este acela care-l deosebeÈ™te pe om de orice alt? form? de via?? organic? deoarece omul este fiinÈ›a prin excelen?? rupt? de natur?, c?reia i se opune în mod evident.
~ Thomas Mann
und der lebt nicht recht, der nicht verzweifeln kann.
~ Thomas Mann
Das Ewige stimmt quietistisch. Das Menschliche ist dem Politischen im Grunde fremd.
~ Thomas Mann
Die wissenschaftliche Überlegenheit der liberalien Theologie, heißt es nun, sei zwar unbestreitbar, aber ihre theologische Position sei schwach, denn ihrem Moralismus und Humanismus mangle die Einsicht in den dämonischen Charakter der meschlichen Existenz.
~ Thomas Mann
Freedom exists, and also the will exists; but the freedom of the will does not exist, for a will that aims at its own freedom aims at the unknown.
~ Thomas Mann
immerse yourself in the great riddle of this dream of life here on earth. It is as nothing since it ends and dissolves into nothingness. Yet everywhere in this nothingness, quickening it to life, the infinite is at hand!
~ Thomas Mann
Fish gotta swim Bird gotta fly Man gotta sit and say Why why why
~ Thomas McEvilley
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
~ Thomas Merton