Quotes About Existence

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

...the infallible man does not exist.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)