Quotes About Existence

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.