Quotes About Existence

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

What man is, only his history tells.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.