Quotes About Existence

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?