Quotes About Existence

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

I wish I could say I'd hit upon the answers to the great mysteries of life [Huncke said a few weeks before he died at age 81]. But it doesn't make any more sense to me than it did on day one.

The real universe of ordinary language is that of the struggle for existence. It is indeed an ambiguous, vague, obscure universe, and is certainly in need of clarification. Moreover, such clarification may well fulfill a therapeutic function, and if philosophy would become therapeutic, it would really come into its own.

The new sensibility has become, by this very token, praxis: it emerges in the struggle against violence and exploitation where this struggle is waged for essentially new ways and forms of life: negation of the entire Establishment, its morality, culture; affirmation of the right to build a society in which the abolition of poverty and toil terminates in a universe where the sensuous, the playful, the calm, and the beautiful become forms of existence and thereby the Form of the society itself.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Hidup itu ialah kelancaran hubungan diri dengan luar diri.

Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.

Religion is inconceivable apart from revelation, and revelation cannot occur apart from the existence of a spiritual world above and behind this visible world, a spiritual world in communion with the visible world.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

173Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,

Philosophy arose out of religion,

if the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.

One arrives at metaphysics, at a philosophy of religion, only if from another source one has gained the certainty that religion is not just an interesting phenomenon—comparable to belief in witches and ghosts—but truth, the truth that God exists, reveals himself, and is knowable.

Without God all things go wrong, both in our living and in our thinking. The denial of the existence of God means the elevation of the creature into the place of God.

primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination

Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.

empirical life is rooted in an a priori datum which does not come slowly into existence by mechanical development, but is a gift of God's grace, and a fruit and result of his revelation.

Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.

If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.

The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]

O, ik weet het niet, maar besta, wees mooi. Zeg: kijk, een vogel en leer me de vogel zien. Zeg: het leven is een brood om in te bijten en de appels zien nog rood van plezier, en nog, en nog, zeg iets. Leer me huilen, en als ik huil, leer me zeggen: het is niets.

Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most.