Quotes About Existence

If an invisible man catches on fire, can you see him burn?

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: 'Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe'

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.