Quotes About Existence

OH, Heaven,it is mysterious,it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us. but are,in very deed, GHOSTS !

All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

What we call pure or impure, is not with her the final question. Not how much chaff is in you; but whether you have any wheat. Pure? I might say to many a man: Yes, you are pure; pure enough; but you are chaff,—insincere hypothesis, hearsay, formality; you never were in contact with the great heart of the Universe at all; you are properly neither pure nor impure; you are nothing, Nature has no business with you.

for is not every meanest Day "the conflux of two Eternities!

To the wisest of them, what we must call the wisest, man is properly an Accident under the sky.

Man is without Duty round him; except it be "to make the Constitution." He is without Heaven above him, or Hell beneath him; he has no God in the world.

A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

Sartre'?n "Varolu? özden önce gelir" deyi?i insanlar?n, mesela bir elbise ask?s?n?n ki gibi önceden belirlenmi? bir özü bulunmad??? anlam?na gelir. Yani bizler belirlenmemi?izdir ve kendimizi yeniden yaratmakta özgürüzdür.

Kendimizi sadece sabit kimlikli nesneler olarak görürsek Olmay? b?rak?r?z. Ve kendimizi nesneler olarak görmenin yollar?ndan biri toplumsal rollerle özde?le?mektir. Bu kimliklenmeye Sartre mauvaise foi, yani kötü inanç der.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn't exist.

A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.