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Quotes About Existence

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
~ R. D. Laing
We live in the best of all possible worlds
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
~ Susan Griffin
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
~ Lord Byron
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
~ Rene Descartes
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
~ Charles William Eliot
I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.
~ George Carlin
A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.
~ Robin Williams
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
~ Paul Ricoeur
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
~ Emile M. Cioran
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.
~ Frederick Lenz
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.
~ Swami Vivekananda
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To be is to be perceived
~ George Berkeley
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
~ Albert Einstein, On Humanism
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
~ Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace
All actual life is encounter.
~ Martin Buber
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
~ Novalis
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.
~ Patti Smith
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I keep living this day like the next will never come.
~ Fiona Apple