Quotes About Existence

You love life because life's all there is.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.

In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

Man is condemned to be free

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.