logo

Quotes About Existence

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler
Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
~ Fernando Pessoa
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
~ Robert Browning
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
~ Geoffrey Chew
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
~ Emily Dickinson
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
~ Swami Vivekananda
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
~ Al Franken
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
~ William Wordsworth
No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.
~ Sri Chinmoy
As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
~ Gore Vidal
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
~ Henry Beston
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .
~ Harriet Martineau
Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.
~ Robert Bringhurst
The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.
~ Shirley Geok-lin Lim
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
~ Victor Hugo
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
~ John Milton
There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.
~ L.A. Paul
The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.
~ Wayne Dyer
The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.
~ Leonard Jacobson