Quotes About Existence

Belief in the existence of God is in the same boat as belief in other minds, the past, and perceptual objects; in each case God has so constructed us that in the right circumstances we form the belief in question.

True: the existence of the experiences that go with the operation of the sensus divinitatis is compatible with there being no omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good creator of the universe. It doesn't follow from that, however, that we can't know — and know, broadly speaking, by experience — that there is such a person.

How could there be truths totally independent of minds or persons?... How could the things that are in fact true or false—propositions, let's say—exist in serene and majestic independence of persons and their means of apprehension? How could there be propositions no one has ever so much as grasped or thought of?

If the collecting or thinking together had to be done by human thinkers, or any finite thinkers, there wouldn't be nearly enough sets - not nearly as many as we think in fact there are. From a theistic point of view, the natural conclusion is that sets owe their existence to God's thinking things together

Pero mientras tanto, si la eternidad comienza hoy, entonces ésta es la manera en la que voy a vivirla. De día en día.

Chepi taught me that all of nature - the sun, the moon, those mountains - all of it knows you from the time you were just an idea. That we're all cells with different purposes, yet we are all connected - existing to serve each other as well as the whole.

We are infinite beings—every last one. The

Something in Alaric's chest tightened painfully at the thought of Quinn, but he refused to allow it to overcome him. She would be fine. She had to be fine. If Quinn were to die, he would have no reason to continue existing.

Today is here yesterday is gone and tommorow never comes.

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

Les mois passèrent. Chaque jour, le temps perdait de sa consistance. J'étais incapable de déterminer s'il s'écoulait vite ou lentement.

No existen cosas demasiado hermosas: sólo existen percepciones cuyo apetito de belleza es mediocre.

Ya?am reddetmek demektir. Her ?eyi kabul eden, lavabo deli?inden fazlas?n? ya??yor olamaz.

Pourquoi a t'on inventé l'enfer alors qu'il existe l'insomnie ?

sería fácil ser Dios si el mal no existiera, pero entonces tampoco habría ninguna necesidad de Dios

En vérité, on passe son temps à lutter contre la terreur du vivant. On s'invente des définitions pour y échapper : je m'appelle machin, je bosse chez chose, mon métier consiste à faire ci et ça.

Cent soixante-cinq minutes creuses et moches pour dix secondes de splendeur, cela correspondait aux proportions de l'existence humaine: soixante-dix années de vie pour une semaine d'extase.

Every existence contains its primal trauma, an event dividing life into a before and an after, a trauma so great that even the most furtive memory of it is enough to make an individual freeze in irrational, incurable, animal terror.

Pour la plupart des gens, aimer est un détail de l'existence, au même titre que le sport, les vacances, les spectacles. L'amour a intérêt à être pratique, à cadrer avec la vie que l'on s'est choisie.

El tiempo nos aplasta

La muerte contenida dentro de la vida me asustó.

Sí, la vida está llena de estos pequeños sinsabores que la perturban de un modo negativo. Mucho más que los problemas metafísicos, son las ínfimas contrariedades las que nos muestran el lado aburdo de la existencia.

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