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Quotes About Existence

Neputând gândi moartea, nu ne raman, dupa cum s-ar parea, decat doua solutii: sau sa gandim asupra mortii, in jurul mortii, cu privire la moarte, sau sa ne gandim la altceva decat la moarte, de exemplu la viata. Prima solutie ineaca problema in oceanul generalitatilor inofensive. Dupa cum vom vedea, eufemia si perifraza sunt, fata de indicibil, ceea ce aceasta filosofie marginala e fata de incomprehensibil: o art? de a tr?nc?ni pe lâng? subiect.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
On peut vivre sans philosophie, sans musique, sans joie et sans amour. Mais pas si bien.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
Ésa es la trampa esencial, aplicar la muerte a los otros por una prórroga perpetua y un aplazamiento. Y eso está justificado por la necesidad de la existencia. Supone perpetuamente este engaño. "Sé que moriré, pero no les creo", dice Jacques Madaule.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
Si può vivere senza musica, senza gioia, senza amore e senza filosofia. Ma mica tanto bene.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
Se dice, por ejemplo, que lo más misterioso no es la noche profunda sino el mediodía, el momento en que todas las cosas están instaladas en su evidencia, en el que se desnuda el hecho mismo de la existencia de las cosas. El hecho de que estén allí es más misterioso que la noche, que despierta pensamientos del secreto. Un secreto se descubre, pero un misterio se revela y es imposible descubrirlo.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
Aquel que ha sido no puede más en adelante no haber sido. En lo sucesivo ese hecho misterioso y profundamente oscuro de haber vivido es su viático para la eternidad".8
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
Matter is a philosophicalcategory denoting the objective reality which is given to man by his sensations, and which is copied, photographed and reflected by our sensations, while existing independently of them.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece.
~ Vladimir Nabakov
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.
~ Unknown
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I confess, I do not believe in time.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The meaning of our whole life and existence is love. It is love to the family, to the children, to the motherland (the world). This phenomenon which appears complicated lies at heart of any of our behaviors. It is exactly the top priority which all of us should go after, and I am absolutely sure that we will succeed.
~ Vladimir Putin
A minha vida está justificada, justificada, justificada!, continuou a gritar, sem compreender que a vida, por si só, entrega-se a nós sem nenhum tipo de condição, e não há necessidade de justificá-la por meios especialmente mirabolantes.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
~ Voltaire
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
~ Voltaire
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
~ Voltaire
To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd
~ Voltaire
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
~ Voltaire
Whoever you are, behold your master,He is, or was, or has to be.
~ Voltaire
If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?
~ Voltaire
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
~ Voltaire
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
~ Voltaire
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
~ Voltaire