Quotes About Existence

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.

O dark dark dark. It was always dark and it would always be dark and it always had been dark - or there would have been no need for the brightness of Marguerite's company.

The seven billion of us alive today are, according to all the evidence available to us, the last remaining group of human great apes from a set of at least four that existed 50,000 years ago.

All life is set for extinction over a long enough timescale; more than 97 percent of species that have ever existed are already gone.

there is no contemporary evidence even for the existence of Jesus Christ, arguably the most influential man in history. Most of our tales about his life were written in the decades after his death by people who had never met him.

Something on the order of 107 billion modern humans have existed, though this number depends on when exactly you start counting.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." Job 5:7

That, of course, does not mean the racism doesn't exist.

Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and reminded myself for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that the only sane response was to continue carrying the tune.

Torah and the world is thus the relation between idea and actualization, between vision and fulfillment. So that the intellectual study of Torah and the emotional involvement in its contents are a form of identification with the divine will, with what may be called God's dream of the existence of the world and the existence of man.

The physical world in which we live, the objectively observed universe around us, is only a part of an inconceivably vast system of worlds. Most of these worlds are spiritual in their essence; they are of a different order from our known world.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.

God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

For by the word upstart I mean everyone who has raised himself through his own efforts to a social level higher than that to which he formerly belonged. In the case of such a person the hard struggle through which he passes often destroys his normal human sympathy. His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

There is no tolerance in nature. Nature, if I take tolerance as a human concept, is the most intolerant thing that exists. It destroys everything that is unfit for life. Whatever is not willing to defend itself, or unable to do so, is destroyed, and we are only a speck of dust in this nature, Man is nothing more than a small bacteria or little bacillus on such a planet. When a creature attempts to escape these laws, it doesn't change the laws, rather, it ends its existence.

Nature knows no political frontiers. She begins by establishing life on this globe and then watches the free play of forces. Those who show the greatest courage and industry are the children nearest to her heart, and they will be granted the sovereign right of existence.

Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time ... There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.

The spectacled theorist would have given his life for his doctrine rather than for his people. Because man has made laws he subsequently comes to think that he exists for the sake of the laws.

Il nostro movimento avrà questo compito: darà al singolo ciò di cui ha bisogno per vivere. Ciò troverà la sua espressione in una graduazione dei meriti tale da garantire, anche all'ultimo onesto lavoratore, una normale esistenza

No one can doubt that this world will one day be the scene of dreadful struggles for existence on the part of mankind. In the end, only the instinct of self-preservation will triumph. This so-called humanitarianism-which connotes only a mixture of stupidity, cowardice, and self-conceit-will melt away like snow under a March sun. Man has become great through perpetual struggle. In perpetual peace, he must decline.

Human rights surpass the rights of the state. But if a people be defeated in the struggle for its human rights, this means that its weight has proved too light in the scale of destiny, to be worthy of survival on this earth. When a people is unwilling or unable to fight for its existence, then providence, in its eternal justice, will decree that peoples end. The world is not here for cowards.

El objetivo por el cual tenemos que luchar es el de asegurar la existencia y el incremento de nuestra raza y de nuestro pueblo; el sustento de sus hijos y la conservación de la pureza de su sangre; la libertad y la independencia de la patria, para que nuestro pueblo pueda llegar a cumplir la misión que el Supremo Creador le tiene reservada.

If the struggle on behalf of a worldview is not led by men of heroic spirit who are ready to sacrifice everything, it will soon become impossible to find real warriors who are ready to die for the cause. A man who fights only for his own existence has little remaining for society.