Quotes About Existence

We inhabit time as fish live in water. Our being is being in time.

A precious miracle that the infinite play of combinations has unlocked for us, allowing us to exist. We may smile now. We can go back to serenely immersing ourselves in time - in our finite time - to savoring the clear intensity of every fleeting and cherished moment of the brief circle of our existence.

Things" in themselves are only events that for a while are monotonous

A stone is a prototypical "thing": we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an "event." It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones.

How long is forever?" asks Alice. "Sometimes, just one second," replies the White Rabbit. There are dreams lasting an instant in which everything seems frozen for an eternity.

Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner; amidst the infinite arabesques of forms which constitute reality we are merely a flourish among innumerably many such flourishes.

Time is information we don't have. Time is our ignorance.

To ask oneself in general what exists or what is real means only to ask how would you like to use a verb and an adjective; it's a grammatical question, not a question about nature. Nature, for its part, is what it is, and we discover it very gradually. If our grammar and our intuition do not readily adapt to what we discover, well, too bad. We must seek to adapt them.

Time opens up our limited access to the world. Time, then, is the form in which we beings, whose brains are made up essentially of memory and foresight, interact with the world: it is the source of identity.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction made between past, present and future is nothing more than a persistent, stubborn illusion." Illusion

En el mar inmenso de galaxias y estrellas, somos un apartado rincón infinitesimal; entre los infinitos arabescos de formas que componen lo real, nosotros no somos más que un garabato entre muchos.

A határozatlanság és tudásunk bizonytalansága, amint azzal tudatlanságunk végtelen szakadékaiba letekintve szembesülünk, nem teszi értelmetlenné az életet, épp ellenkez?leg: értékessé teszi.

I don't like to thank God: I like to wake in the morning, look at the sea and thank the wind, the waves, the sky, the fragrance of plants, the life that allows me to exist, the sun that rises.

Time, as Aristotle suggested, is the measure of change;

Every day countless people die, and yet those who remain live as if they were immortals.

Time is our ignorance.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.'104

The mystery of time has always troubled us, stirring deep emotions. So deep as to have nourished philosophies and religions.

Our "present" does not extend throughout the universe. It is like a bubble around us.

It is in order to escape this anxiety that we have imagined the existence of "eternity," a strange world outside of time that we would like to be inhabited by gods, by a God, or by immortal souls.

But there are not just two times. Times are legion: a different one for every point in space. There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them.

The world is strange, but simple

We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality.

I want a theory of physics that accounts for the structure of the universe, that clarifies what it is to be an observer in the universe, not a theory that makes the universe depend on me observing it.