Quotes About Existence

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

Man created God in his own image.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.