Quotes About Existence

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

Zu viel! Zu viel! Mein ganzes Sein ist in dem einen Augenblick. Jetzt stirb. Mehr ist unmöglich.

MARIE As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another. WOYZECK I saw him. MARIE You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.

Es wird mir ganz angst um die Welt, wenn ich an die Ewigkeit denke.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }

Vorstellungen sind auch ein Leben und eine Welt

Me parece imposible demostrar que somos la obra de un ser superior y no el pasatiempo de uno bastante defectuoso.

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Sren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

This life is not given to us as a pastime. There was a solemn purpose in our creation, in the life that God has given to us. Let us study what that purpose is, that we may progress and obtain eternal life.

George Anderson, We Don't Die.

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

How much human life can we absorb?" answers one of Facebook's founders,

The fundamental, indivisible unit of information is the bit. The fundamental, indivisible unit of digital computation is the transformation of a bit between its two possible forms of existence: as structure (memory) or as sequence (code). This is what a Turing Machine does when reading a mark (or the absence of a mark) on a square of tape, changing its state of mind accordingly, and making (or erasing) a mark somewhere else.

Harmony is the characteristic of the intellectual system of the universe; and immutable laws of moral existence must pervade all time and all space, all ages and all worlds.

Believe me, the world always was, and always will be the same, as long as men are men.