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Quotes About Existence

A tree is a tree, the Earth, and the Universe. It is you, it is me, and it is all of humanity.
~ Ilchi Lee
Being is a more awakened state than having. To be is to exist in a space of pure choice and creation
~ Ilchi Lee
Ella conocía el rigor de la existencia, y sabía que las personas respondían más allá incluso de donde era previsible o de donde se pudiera sostener que era soportable. Injusticias, palizas, violaciones, humillaciones... ¡crueldad!, y sin embargo la propia vida, instintivamente, se agarraba con tenacidad a la más mortecina de las luces.
~ Unknown
From within the heart of matter, I hold together the foundations of the universe.
~ Unknown
The foundation of existence is not mere being itself (what is) but relationality (what is becoming): union is always toward more being.
~ Unknown
As far as theology is concerned, Christian understanding of the meaning of God, Christ, redemption, morality, and human existence is still weighed down by both prescientific and early modern cosmological assumptions.
~ Unknown
Leben ist angewandte Unsicherheit.
~ Unknown
Staying alive just to stay alive isn't enough.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Alles, woran man glaubt, beginnt zu existieren.
~ Unknown
A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them?
~ Unknown
At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?
~ Ilya Kaminsky
Yes we lived. We lived, yes, don't say it was a dream/
~ Ilya Kaminsky
You are alive, I whisper to myself, therefore something in you listens.
~ Ilya Kaminsky
We are simply spirits in a shell. The body is merely a covering, a casement for the soul.
~ Ilyasah Shabazz
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
~ Immanuel Kant
The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.
~ Immanuel Kant
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.
~ Immanuel Kant
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
~ Immanuel Kant
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
~ Immanuel Kant
daß jenseits des Anekdotischen jede Geschichte und jedermanns Geschichte vom wesentlichen her gesehen gleichartig sei, und daß diese im wesentlichen gleichartigen Geschichten im wesentlichen tatsächlich alle Schreckensgeschichten seien, daß im wesentlichen alles Geschehen tatsächlich schrecklich sei und daß, im wesentlichen, auch die Geschichte schon seit langem nichts als höchstens eine Schreckensgeschichte sei.
~ Imre Kertesz
Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.
~ Imre Kertesz
No escribo, luego no soy.
~ Imre Kertesz
Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.
~ Imre Kertesz
Mais n'exagérons rien, puisque c'est là le problème: je suis ici et je sais bien que j'accepte tous les arguments, au prix de pouvoir vivre
~ Imre Kertesz