Quotes About Existence

Modern man does not live in space and time, but in geometry and chronometry.

Nations have two noble modes of existence—ascent or decadence—and one vulgar mode—prosperity.

Todo necesita justificar su existencia, salvo la obra de arte.

Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.

The philosophy of Schopenhauer does not necessarily exclude God. It just does not include Him. God would be the goal of the will therein and the only nourishment that would satisfy it.

Man today does not live in space and time. But in geometry and chronometers.

Life" has so obviously become the highest goal of the modern world that whoever lives for something else — even if it's eating — arouses our sympathy.

Democrats can be divided into those who believe wickedness is curable and those who deny it exists.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

Authentic atheism is as important to human intelligence as infinity is to imagination.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.

Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness.

Die Zeit ist weniger zu fürchten, weil sie tötet, als weil sie demaskiert.

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demonstrate that meaning does not exist.

What is "rational" consists in prolonging life, avoiding pain, satisfying the appetite for hunger and sex. Only some such definition sheds any light on the discourse of the last centuries.

In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

Finalement, ce qui constitue l'ossature de l'existence, ce n'est ni la famille, ni la carrière, ni ce que d'autres diront ou penseront de vous, mais quelques instants de cette nature, soulevés par une lévitation plus sereine encore que celle de l'amour, et que la vie nous distribue avec une parcimonie à la mesure de notre faible cœur.

Comme une eau, le monde vous traverse et pour un temps vous prête ses couleurs. Puis se retire, et vous replace devant ce vide qu'on porte en soi, devant cette espèces d'insuffisance centrale de l'âme qu'il faut bien apprendre à côtoyer, à combattre, et qui, paradoxalement, est peut-être notre moteur le plus sûr.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Je suis partout où je suis.

cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

Here I am, motionless in the room, watching what is going on in the street. Nothing. Only reality.