Quotes About Existence

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

The wise man's home is the universe.