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Quotes About Existence

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If reason ruled the world would history even exist?
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.
~ Kedar Joshi
The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).
~ Laurence Silberman
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.
~ H. L. Mencken
Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?
~ Louisa Hall, Speak
Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.
~ Robert W. Service
Life is mostly froth and bubble
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.
~ Thaddeus Golas
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.
~ Adi Shankara
There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
~ Jim Morrison
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
~ Rene Descartes
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
~ Voltaire
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.
~ Luther Standing Bear
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
~ Chester Himes
There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.
~ Jean le Rond d'Alembert
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
~ Charles Hard Townes
Uno lo sabe, sabe que tuvo esa experiencia, que se la metió a esa mujer en otra vida, con otro yo del que sin embargo hay constancia, más que memoria.
~ Javier Marías
Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar que somos imprescindíveis, que contribuímos com algo através da nossa existência, que esta não é inútil nem completamente indiferente. Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar nisto, mas a maior parte sabe que não é assim... Tudo funcionaria da mesma maneira sem nós, porque somos comutáveis e substituíveis.
~ Javier Marías
nadie puede exigir lo que no sabe que existe y a quien no conoce
~ Javier Marías
Às vezes tenho a sensação de que nada do que acontece acontece, porque nada acontece sem interrupção, nada perdura nem persevera nem se recorda incessantemente, e até a mais monótona e rotineira das existências vai se anulando e negando a si mesma em sua aparente repetição até que nada seja nada e ninguém seja ninguém que tenham sido antes.
~ Javier Marías
Los dormidos, y los muertos, no son sino como pinturas', dijo nuestro Shakespeare, y yo a veces pienso que las personas todas son sólo eso, como pinturas, dormidos presentes y futuros muertos.
~ Javier Marías
Cuesta comprender que ya no exista quien ha existido.
~ Javier Marías