Quotes About Existence

I am exceedingly anxious to meet and talk with you, whether you think yourself one of His works, or a particle drawn, of necessity, from eternal and necessary matter. Whatever you are, you are a worthy part of that great whole which I do not understand.82

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";65 the power whereby a thing persists is the core and essence of its being.

What crime have these children committed that they should be born? If

IV. IS MAN A MACHINE? Yes, said Julien Offroy de La Mettrie.

It is clear that as our walking is admittedly nothing but a constantly-prevented falling, so the life of our bodies is nothing but a constantly-prevented dying, an ever-postponed death."86

In death there are smaller premises, littler ironies.

You have to realize just because things don't have tangible reality, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Ideas are just as real as people and property. Ideas have changed the world profoundly to an extent most people never approach - Father Beale

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath: And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die

When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? - The Tyger

Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

La Eternidad está enamorada de las obras del tiempo.

Than you'll see the world as it is : infinte.

A happy fly If I live Or if I die

All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

One thought fills immensity.