Quotes About Existence

Qual è la vostra ricetta per conservare la giovinezza, Irene?» «Quando non si vive ci si conserva meravigliosamente».

Trout are among those creatures who are one hell of a lot prettier than they need to be. They can get you to wondering about the hidden workings of reality.

To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

The I is a thing of the moment, and yet our lives are ruled by it. We cannot rid ourselves of this non-existent thing.

Las razones por las que estamos aquí forman una cadena tan inverosímil que la posibilidad de que alguna otra civilización tecnológica exista en la Vía Láctea en la actualidad es remotísima. Estamos solos, y lo mejor es que nos hagamos la idea.

whole universe can be thought of as a delayed-choice experiment in which the existence of observers who notice what is going on is what imparts tangible reality to the origin of everything. Following

Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein

Las personas son entidades interesantes y complicadas, y vivimos en el momento más interesante y complicado de la vida del Universo porque es el único momento en que las criaturas como nosotros podríamos existir.

He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

The Bible considers it much more important to say that God has made everything work rather than being content to say that God made the physical stuff.

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

It is like remembering two different lives at once...and wondering which of them is mine...

I came to realise that my life, which had seemed so unmistakably real, consisted only of memories

The business of philosophy is critique. It clarifies the limits of meaningful language. Science on the other hand consists of all true propositions. It studies the existence or nonexistence of states of affairs.

Whereas things exist, are in space and time and have properties such as hardness, colour, etc.

He had an early formulation of what in the Tractatus he saw more clearly — that we can speak of existence only when we assert the truth of some proposition that is not itself existential.

If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

Life, Garp wrote, is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.