Quotes About Existence

Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.

When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.

In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

Man is created for the glory of God.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.