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Quotes About Existence

All is One (Nature, God)
~ Baruch Spinoza
When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
~ Robert Lanza
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
~ Lucretius
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
~ Patricia Highsmith
The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
~ August Macke
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
~ Francis Bacon
White does not exist in nature.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'
~ Huangbo Xiyun
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Death is nature's way of killing you.
~ Bill Maher
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
~ William Wordsworth
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
~ Herbert Marcuse
We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.
~ Edouard Vuillard
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
~ Alice Walker
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.
~ Rajneesh
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
~ Diane Ackerman
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
~ Billy Corgan
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
~ George Santayana