Quotes About Existence

there is a fundamental messiness to the nature of the good.

Yes, God is real.

perdre la vie, c'est mettre tout son courage en un seul geste. La vie, elle, peut exiger un courage de tous les jours, de tous les instants ; elle peut être, elle aussi, un sacrifice, mais qui n'a rien de flamboyant : si je dois sacrifier mon temps et mes forces, je suis bien obligé de rester en vie. En ce sens, vivre devient plus difficile que mourir.

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.

If that idea of the meaningful is dropped, then you will see meaning in whatever you are doing in daily life.

You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that

As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.

Vegetarianism for what? For some spiritual goals? One form of life lives off another. That's a fact, whether you like it or not.

You are living. As soon as you introduce the question "how to live?" you have made of life a problem. "How" to live has made life meaningless. The moment you ask "how," you turn to someone for answers, becoming dependent.

Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problem. Transformation, moksha, liberation, and all that stuff are just variations on the same theme: permanent happiness. The body cannot take that. The pleasure of sex, for instance, is by nature temporary. The body can't take uninterrupted pleasure for long, it would be destroyed. Wanting to impose a fictitious, permanent state of happiness on the body is a serious neurological problem.

Every time a thought is born, you are born. Thought in its very nature is shortlived, and once it is gone, that's the end of it. That is probably what the traditions meant by rebirth -- death and birth and death and birth. It is not that this particular entity, which is non-existing even while you are living, takes a series of births. The ending of births and deaths is the state that they are talking about.

You can't experience anything except through thought. You can't experience your own body except through the help of thought. The sensory perceptions are there. Your thoughts give form and definition to the body, otherwise you have no way of experiencing it. The body does not exist except as a thought. There is one thought. Everything exists in relationship to that one thought. That thought is "me." Anything you experience based on thought is an illusion.

Nobody knows anything about life and there is NO point in defining life.

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!

freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to meaning. It makes sense [Sinn] to understand meaning [Sinn] as the fundamental category of human existence."29

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

may exist mathematical laws of thought in principle derivable from physic/chemistry. Such laws would have to be probabilistic.

One must accept that death is a part of life, even the most terrible death. And do we not live a whole life every day, and does it then make any great difference if we live a few days more or less? -Anita Goldman

I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.