Quotes About Existence

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

All Philosophy is Biography

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

Life is just a bag of pot.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!