Quotes About Existence

We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautify acts must argue for God's existence.

We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautiful acts must argue for God's existence.

I am part animal and part God.

Genesis 1:1. When bara is used in the Torah, it is used only with reference to God—because only God can create from nothing.

The believer has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for the existence of everything else.

Creation is a process where something seems to come out of nowhere. You are an example of this, because you exist right now, but prior to your conception, you did not exist as a physical entity.

What am I more than elaborate sentience?

What now matters most is that we avoid ending human history. If there are no rational beings elsewhere, it may depend on us and our successors whether it will all be worth it, because the existence of the Universe will have been on the whole good.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life

Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you.

Will this be the end of it?' 'There is never an end to such things,' he said quietly. 'But we are alive. And that is good.

After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?

There was nothing frightening about the dead man; there never is. No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying; once gone, what is left is only an object

We come and go from mystery and, in between, we try to forget.

I'm not sure that religion was constructed with time travelers in mind." Buck's brows rose at that. "Constructed?" he echoed, surprised. "Who builds God?

But the future reaches out to us, as does the past, and all times are the present.

Meals were the daily bane of my existence; not so much the constant work of picking, cleaning, chopping, cooking—though those activities were fairly baneful in themselves—but primarily the never-ending chore of remembering what we had on hand, and balancing the effort required to make it edible against the knowledge of what might spoil if we didn't eat it right away.

Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe, he said. To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It is not the place of science to insist on explanation---but only to observe, in hopes that explanation will manifest itself.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy, Sassenach," he whispered, "—for it means that ye live.

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