Quotes About Existence

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

To be awake is to be alive.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.