Quotes About Existence

can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Man is spirit--that is all man needs to know; and spirit is triumphant over matter.

Max Tegmark in his book Our Mathematical Universe.

In the higher world, we don't live our lives, we wear them. And that's what it means to rise above life on the wings of objective love. That's where she was.

but death is the ultimate purpose of life.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.

Demandez-vous s´il y a une explication au mystere de la vie et de la mort

There is nothing serious in mortality!

Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.

There was genuine regret in his face as he showed her that trifling attention. He was a vagabond and a cheat; he had lived a mean, shuffling, degraded life, but he was human; and she had found her way to the lost sympathies in him which not even the self-profanation of a swindler's existence could wholly destroy. Damn

the harder the struggle for existence among the men and women about us, the less the risk of their having the time or taking the pains to notice chance strangers who came among them.

Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.

But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind.

The second biological lesson of history is that life is selection. In the competition for food or mates or power some organisms succeed and some fail. In the struggle for existence some individuals are better equipped than others to meet the tests of survival.

Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing, he said. All people are good except those who are idle.