Quotes About Existence

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

Our body is a machine for living.

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.