Quotes About Existence

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I know someone who believes that Hugo Boss scents constitute proof that God does not exist.

to think politically requires recognizing the ontological dimension of radical negativity.1 It is because of the existence of a form of negativity that cannot be overcome dialectically that full objectivity can never be reached and that antagonism is an ever present possibility.

It may also be noted in passing that both the theist and the Agnostic actually do deny the existence of particular gods without the least hesitation. No rational Agnostic would hesitate to deny the existence of Jupiter, Javeh, Allah, or Brahma. No Christian would hesitate to deny the existence of the gods of a tribe of savages.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

The wide range of religious ideas and their existence at a very low culture stage, precludes the assumption that religious ideas are generated in the same conscious way as are scientific theories.

Life is like a reel life but real life is not reel life.

The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.

I make war on the living, not on the dead.

My problem with democracy is that it doesn't exist. I'm not opposed to it. And I'm not opposed to the tooth fairy either.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

I live only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Either God is in the whole of Nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.

Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born.

One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the cosmos. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips, I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my veins. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign. Whatever is created by the spirit is more alive than matter.

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, -- actions, desires, dreams, words!

The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!