Quotes About Existence

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.