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Quotes About Existence

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
~ A.C. Grayling
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
~ Marsilio Ficino
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
~ Martin Heidegger
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
~ Robin Williams
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
~ Albert Camus
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
~ Plato
Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
~ Edmund Husserl
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
~ Jean Toomer
we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
~ Alan Chadwick
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
~ Harold Pinter
You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
~ Robin Williams
Life is a constant process of dying.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
~ James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.
~ Peter Block
I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.
~ Roman Polanski
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
~ Socrates
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
~ Antonio Machado
I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.
~ Judy Tenuta
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
~ Albert Camus
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
~ Stephen Hawking
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
~ William James