Quotes About Existence

and Hell, after all, was not physically worse than the mortal plane.

And then, our universe will be in a state of absolute equilibrium. All life and thought will cease and, with them, time itself.

Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.

The question is, what has life but not form?

They couldn't have come into being with minds as blank as newborn infants, because they'd have rapidly starved to death in such a scenario.

But the moment of creation is where all causal chains end; inference can lead us back to this moment and no further.

But if it's in fact true that you have no purpose in mind for me, then that sense of fulfillment has arisen solely from within myself.

The tendency towards equilibrium is not a trait peculiar to our universe but inherent in all universes.

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact.

I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily.

We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all.

Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have a right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.

No es ninguna coincidencia que <> signifique al mismo tiempo tener esperanza y el acto de respirar. Cuando hablamos, usamos el aliento de nuestros pulmones para darle a nuestros pensamientos una forma física. Los sonidos que emitimos son simultáneamente nuestras intenciones y nuestra fuerza vital. Hablo, Luego soy.

Comprendo la Palabra, y los medios por los que opera, y de esta forma me disuelvo

We all keep spare sets of full lungs in our homes, but when one is alone, the act of opening one's chest and replacing one's lungs can seem little better than a chore.

The buildings we have erected, the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we've led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them were inevitable.

No es ninguna coincidencia que aspiración signifique al mismo tiempo tener esperanza y el acto de respirar. Cuando hablamos, usamos el aliento de nuestros pulmones para darle a nuestros pensamientos una forma física. Los sonidos que emitimos son simultáneamente nuestras intenciones y nuestra fuerza vital. Hablo, luego soy

They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.

If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

Todos mis deseos y reflexiones no son ni más ni menos que remolinos generados por la exhalación paulatina de nuestro universo. Y hasta el momento en que esta gran exhalación termine, mis pensamientos proseguirán.

The universe is so vast that intelligent life must surely have arisen many times. The universe is also so old that even one technological species would have had time to expand and fill the galaxy. Yet there is no sign of life anywhere except on Earth. Humans call this the Fermi Paradox. One proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox is that intelligent species actively try to conceal their presence, to avoid being targeted by hostile invaders.

Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men should remain on the earth.

The existence of free will meant that we couldn't know the future. And we knew free will existed because we had direct experience of it. Volition was an intrinsic part of consciousness.

Do you now understand why I say the future and the past are the same? We cannot change either, but we can know both more fully.