Quotes About Existence

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.

I believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence.

It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.

Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

I believe there's other forms of intelligence in the universe. I've seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we're the most intelligent things in the universe... well, that's just depressing.

The universe is an intelligence test.

We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.