Quotes About Existence

Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Philosophy is an act of living.

One lives but once in the world.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

The final philosophy is the ontology of God.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts, , actions! They are all but grains of sand

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

Never forget to express your gratitude for the gift of life.

When you cease to love, you cease to exist.

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)

All of the stories, all of the beauty, all of the songs and events of this life will vanish in the ocean of time.

The only thing I know is that a person who is not busy with others is one who recognizes the truth of existence.