Quotes About Existence

A boundless mass of human Being, flowing in a stream without banks; up-stream, a dark past wherein our time-sense loses all powers of definition and restless or uneasy fancy conjures up geological periods to hide away an eternally unsolvable riddle; down-stream, a future even so dark and timeless –– such is the groundwork of the Faustian picture of human history.

Every soul has religion, which is only another word for its existence. All living forms in which it expresses itself—all arts, doctrines, customs, all metaphysical and mathematical form-worlds, all ornament, every column and verse and idea—are ultimately religious, and must be so.

Servitude and freedom—this is in the last and deepest analysis the differentia by which we distinguish vegetable and animal existence. A herd that huddles together trembling in the presence of danger, a child that clings weeping to its mother, a man desperately striving to force a way into his God—all these are seeking to return out of the life of animal freedom into the vegetal servitude from which they were emancipated.

Leben ist Tun und Leiden. Je wissender der Mensch, desto tiefer sein seelisches Leid.

We no longer believe in the power of reason over life. We feel that it is life which dominates reason.

There is no substituting anything else for Life. After Life there is only Death.

The birth of the Ego, and of the world-anxiety with which it is identical, is one of the final secrets of humanity and of mobile life generally. In front of the Microcosm there stands up a Macrocosm wide and overpowering, an abyss of alien, dazzling existence and activity that frightens the small lonely ego back into itself...Over the dawn of the new Culture likewise lay this deathly anxiety.

Es Dios quien primero ilumina, obra y habla al interior del hombre visionario abierto, antes que éste logre expresarse a sí mismo, pensarse a sí mismo y hacerse a sí mismo en el yo soy.

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworthiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and the God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.

It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law.

Trust was right, as, looking back on that time, I know now, in thinking that Ben had some touch in him of the poet. Not of the poet's utterance, surely; I do not think he could have strung a line of words together to save his existence; but of the poet's temperament, of the poet's feeling.

And I knew that she said truly; for indeed to live only to know the pains, the needs, the agonies, and the travails that lie in living, is a hard fate, though it be the fate of millions.

I wonder now that I did not die; but if everything died that is full of wretchedness, your world would soon have but a sparse peopling.

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

Was there any meaning to the life he had led? Not even that did he believe in. But this was something he knew nothing about. It was not for him to judge.

Aki él, nem rejtÅ'zhet el. Szép lassan minden megtörténik az emberrel. Zsugorodik a zsugori idÅ'.

We're not saints, and we're not screwups. We're just...people.

True happiness isn't enhanced by pleasure or diminished by sadness, but exists in spite of those things.

Did you realize that 90 to 99 percent of what goes on in the universe is either infra (below) or ultra (beyond) our faculties of perception? Because of this, at any given moment, we are only aware of a small fraction of what is happening within or around us. Our perceptual range expands

Life is consciousness expressing itself in form. All is alive. All is intelligent.

Thoughts are just as real as words.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again