Quotes About Existence

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

Cualquier colombiano lo sabe: aquí nada sirve a un propósito público. Aquí sólo existen intereses particulares. El colombiano sólo concibe las relaciones personales, sólo concibe su reducido interés personal o familiar, y a ese único fin subordina toda su actividad pública y privada.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

eternity, where time does not exist and so the future and the past are both the present.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

Bill, the point is that right in the middle of this horror there's a creature called man who can see that it's horrible. So where do we come up with these notions like 'evil' and 'cruel' and 'unjust'? You can't say a line looks a little bit crooked unless you've got a notion of a line that's straight.

Was the universe eternal?

That you ever existed is a thought that gives me shelter; that men could make you up is a thought that gives me hope; and the thought that you might exist even now would give me safety and a gladness that I could not contain.

why would an eye want to form?

Well, they couldn't, so apparently each of these cells has a consciousness, maybe, of its own. Are you with me?" Chris nodded. "Yeah, a little." "Good. Now imagine that the human body

It is not the ought -ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is -ness!

Past generations were most concerned with the material side of creation: How could something come from nothing? Cosmologists now recognize another, informational side of creation. Creation of a world entails above all information. The state of everything—everywhere—at every time—must be defined. The most economical way to specify such information is through a complexity-generating recursion of physical law.

Dreadful as all these processes may seem, they are only the resolution of certain carbon-based compounds into certain other carbon-based compounds. Carbon is the element of life and death. We share it with diamonds and dandelions, with kerosene an kelp. While we may wrinkle our noses at some of its manifestations, we ought also to remember that this element comes to us from the stars, which wheel over us forever in silent, glittering array, pure fires obeying celestial laws.

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

Gus, I know you hit your head, but you should be able to tell a few things about Tara. Like for instance she isn't printed on cheap paper. When she talks, her words don't appear in balloons over her head. And after long and hard study, I can guarantee she exists in at least three dimensions.

When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.

What, really, do we do with our lives?