Quotes About Existence

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

God is Man's greatest invention

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.