Quotes About Existence

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Man has never been the same since God died.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

Man is a robot with defects.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

We are all dead men on leave.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.