Quotes About Existence

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill.

A stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no delicate balance.

In being aware of the bodily experience, we must thereby be aware of aspects of the whole spatio-temporal world as mirrored within the bodily life.....my theory involves the entire abandonment of the notion that simple location is the primary way in which things are involved in space-time.

But discontinuity whether in cultures or physics, unavoidably invokes the ancient notion of harmony. And it is out of the extreme discontinuity of modern existence, with its mingling of many cultures and periods, that there is being born today the vision of a rich and complex harmony. We do not have a single, coherent present to live in, and so we need a multiple vision in order to see at all.

But does time honour things? Sabine would teach me to ask. How? Why? And if it does, ought it to go on doing so? And for how long?)

Where I am going, nothing of me will remain: yet, I'll drift through the voices of coyotes, drip into florets by a mountain rock.

A?k sözcü?ü yerini, anlam?n? dumura u?ratt?. S?radan bir sözcük gibi yerini her ?eye açt?. Tanr? gibi varolup da var olam?yor art?k. Hem a?k?n varl??? da çok su götürür. Gerçekte a?k yoktur: Var k?lmak istiyoruz. Bu hakk?m?z da. Ba?ka bir ?eyimiz yok çünkü.

Bir denizi, bir evi, bir a?ac? yok dü?ünebilir miyiz? ?iirin de böyle varolmas?. Bence ?iirin bu dedi?im yoldan varolmas?na en büyük engel anlamd?r. Nitekim denizin varolmas? da, onu d???m?zda dü?ünmekten vazgeçip, ya?am?m?za kar??t?rd???m?z zaman ba?lar. Bu çe?it varolmak onu anlamak istememizle ilgilidir

La vie nous habitue à la mort par le sommeil. La vie nous avertit qu'il existe une autre vie par le rêve.

On the brink of mystery, the spirit of man is seized with giddiness. Mystery is the abyss which ceaselessly attracts our unquiet curiosity by the terror of its depth. The greatest mystery of the infinite is the existence of Him for whom alone all is without mystery. Comprehending the infinite which is essentially incomprehensible, He is Himself that infinite and eternally unfathomable mystery; that is to say, that He is, in all seeming, that supreme absurdity in which Tertullian believed.

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

Rien ne vient de rien & rien ne se perd dans le rien

Where are they now? – The dead are nowhere and everywhere

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente – Ayer

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente.

Music must always flow, for that is part of its very essence, but the creation of that continuity and flow--that long line-- constitutes the be-all and end-all of every composer's existence.

For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless.

To appreciate a certain amount of material comfort," Gideon continued, "does not mean you are not a real person." Phil