Quotes About Existence

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Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. —Sir Thomas Browne

You're searching, Joe, For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. —Robert Frost

Beauty is its own reason for being.

the land goes on no matter who walks on it

We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.

Bertand Russell: "Even when one feels nearest to other people, something in one seems obstinately to belong to God . . . —at least that is how I should express it if I thought there was a God. It is odd, isn't it? I care passionately for this world and many things and people in it, and yet . . . what is it all? There must be something more important one feels, though I don't believe there is.

Eric Fromm: "The need for . . . an object of devotion is deeply rooted in the conditions of human existence.

There can only be one God according to these arguments for many reasons. First, the God of the Cosmological argument is infinite48since every finite thing needs a cause. And there cannot be two infinite Beings. For in order for there to be two beings of the same kind, they would have to differ. But two infinite Beings do not differ; they are the same kind of Being, namely, infinite. Second, the theistic God (of the Moral Argument) is absolutely perfect.

Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3

On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there's no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn't matter how you live or what you believe—your destiny is dust.

General Relativity supports what is one of the oldest formal arguments for the existence of a theistic God—the Cosmological Argument.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.

For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

It's also important to understand that the universe did not emerge from existing material but from nothing—there was no matter before the Big Bang. In fact, chronologically, there was no "before" the Big Bang because there are no "befores" without time, and there was no time until the Big Bang.

Time, space, and matter came into existence at the Big Bang.

this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. (Pensees, #148)

finite being needs a cause, the Cause of all finite beings (God) does not need a cause: He is the Uncaused Cause and Unlimited Limiter of all limited things.

the greatest miracle of all—the creation of the universe out of nothing—has already occurred, which means Genesis 1:1 and every other miracle in the Bible is believable.

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.