Quotes About Existence

Second, I have taken it for granted that Jesus of Nazareth existed. Some writers feel a need to justify this assumption at length against people who try from time to time to deny it. It would be easier, frankly, to believe that Tiberius Caesar, Jesus' contemporary, was a figment of the imagination than to believe that there never was such a person as Jesus. Those who persist in denying this obvious point will probably not want to read a book like this anyway.

What the early Christians meant by "belief" included both believing that God had done certain things and believing in the God who had done them. This is not belief that God exists, though clearly that is involved, too, but loving, grateful trust.

Instead of "thinking God's thoughts after him," science was now studying the world as though God didn't exist.

God's creative love, precisely by being love, creates new space for there to be things that are genuinely other than God.

this event, all the early Christians tell us, the living God was revealed in human form, in utter self-giving love, to be the focus of grateful worship, worship that would replace the idols and would therefore generate a new, truly human existence in which the deadly grip of sin had been broken forever.

I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have. This frightens all children, And kills fear in the wise.

Without recourse to the conventional The ultimate cannot be shown

To whomever emptiness is possible, All things are possible.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Entities do not exist In their causes, in their conditions In aggregations of many things, or in individual things Therefore, all entities are empty.

Inasmuch a real mover does not move, and a non-mover does not move, apart from a mover and a non-mover, what third thing could move?

Motion does not begin in what has moved, nor does it begin in what has not moved, nor does it begin in what is moving. In what, then, does motion begin?

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

The fear that goes with the writing of verse has nothing in common with the fear one experiences in the presence of the secret police. Our mysterious awe in the face of existence itself is always overridden by the more primitive fear of violence and destruction.

Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?

Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of "I" exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a face The "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.

All philosophies are mental fabrications.

Everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence. Shalt not thou, by a similar acknowledgment, be happy? If thou pay due attention to sounds, thou shalt hear the praise of the Creator celebrated by the whole creation.

He understands evil better than any other person I've ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.

The dark existed whether you looked at it or not.

To enjoy the now. It'll be gone soon enough, and no one knows what the next hour, much less tomorrow, will bring.

had made her see that there was hope for many of her squadmates, hope for a life beyond the regimented existence of an Arrow. Those like Zaira could stand sentinel against the darkness so others could be free to grab at life.