Quotes About Existence

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

man's inherent state of being is one of anxiety and hopelessness.

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.

The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what time we have.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

the mind shaping reality just is reality. There is nothing beyond it. But this did not mean that reality remained in a fixed state. For Hegel, everything is in a process of change, and that change takes the form of a gradual increase in self-awareness, our state of self-awareness being fixed by the period in which we live.

And so begin again by doing what I really want to do. Work. Aspiring to an existence with a lot of quiet in it. Turning from people I don't needing my life. Shunning bits busyness. Finding the courage to say no. I need to be good at being alive again.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

En la vida, en cualquier lugar, bien entre las duras, pobres, tristes y sucias filas de la clase baja, o entre las uniformemente frías y de monótona pulcritud de la clase elevada, y por lo menos una vez en la vida, el hombre encuentra en su camino una visión que no se parece nada de lo que ha visto hasta entonces, que despierta en él un sentimiento distinto de aquellos que le está predestinado sentir durante toda su existencia.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

It is dull in this world, gentlemen!

And now, at length, in my declining years, I am seeking a corner in which to eke out the remainder of my miserable existence, while at the present moment I am enjoying the hospitality of a neighbour of your acquaintance.

And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there.

But nothing on this earth lasts for a long time, and thus even joy is not as vivid the second moment as it is the first; the third moment, it becomes still weaker, and finally it merges unnoticeably with the normal state of one's soul,

A vida, porém, é tão boa, e tanto se quer viver, e a vida tanto nos seduz que chega a girar e girar algo diante de nossos olhos...

Indivíduos contemporâneos são incitados a viver como se fossem projetos: eles devem trabalhar seu mundo emocional, seus arranjos domésticos e conjugais, suas relações com o emprego e suas técnicas de prazer sexual; devem desenvolver um "estilo de vida" que maximizará o valor de suas existências para eles mesmos.

That was what I loved most about the capital; as terrifying and vast as it was, the opportunity for wonder existed. People could meet and part as in dreams.