Quotes About Existence

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of to-day two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards an that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. The varying degrees of culture are measured by the greater or less precision of the standards. Where there is little such precision, these standards rule existence only grosso modo; where there is much they penetrate in detail into the exercise of all the activities.

There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.

Pensar es un movimento natatorio para salvarse de la perdición en el caos

El ser es la balsa que el náufrago se construye con lo que le rodea... Tiene u caràcter puramente intrahumano, domestico. Fuera del hombre no hay ser porque aparece solo cuando se le busca.

Nuestra vida es, en todo instante y antes que nada, conciencia de lo que nos es posible. Si en cada momento no tuviéramos delante más que una sola posibilidad, carecería de sentido llamarla así. Sería más bien pura necesidad.»

Todo vivir es vivirse, sentirse vivir, saberse existiendo, donde saber no implica conocimiento intelectual ni sabiduría especial ninguna, sino que es esa sorprendente PRESENCIA que su vida tiene para cada cual; sin ese saberse, sin ese darse cuenta, el dolor de muelas no nos dolería.

Because man's being is made of strange stuff....

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

In losing God the Western world had lost its soul and its center. It had become "weightless"—groundless, centerless, meaningless, insignificant and immaterial, with an "unbearable lightness of being.

When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

The first level of understanding necessary to faith is becoming critically aware of our dilemma in life without God.

Faith desires to let God be God. Sin has framed God, whether by the ultimate insults that he, the creator of all things, does not exist, or that he, the white-hot holy One, is responsible for the evil and suffering that humans have introduced into his good creation.

The truth is that we are a generation that has too much to live with and too little to live for.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

Our life-purpose therefore comes from two sources at once—who we are created to be and who we are called to be. Not

As theologian N. T. Wright points out, trees behave as trees, rocks as rocks and the seas as the seas, but "Only humans, it seems, have the capacity to live as something other than what they are.

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.

Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.

Living itself is the source of sin.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.