Quotes About Existence

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.

The world is finite, harmonious, and good.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

For humans it is not at all possible to have the best thing of all or to have any share of the best nature—since the best thing for all men and women is not to be born. But the second best thing after this and the first available to mortals, is to die as soon as possible after being born." It is clear that he said this because the way that exists in death is better than the one in life.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

Some people, well, most people just seem to show up on your life with no clear purpose. Have you noticed that? They're like dust mites. You know they're there, you just don't know what to do about them.

Awareness of the existence of oneself leads to a crisis in which one's being-in-the-world is fundamentally questioned. One's existence, however, is not simply denied. Instead, one faces the basic fact that one is responsible for one's relations to all humans and other beings through one's acts.

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

Love is the only good way many of us know how to feel alive.

I knew I had to live because, well, I didn't have the imagination to think otherwise.

Love is the only good way many of us know how to feel alive. And the ghost I so often was wanted badly to feel real. And the characters in this section can at least tell you I existed. They might not have thought of me much, but they can tell you I was real. Sometimes too real.

Live to live and you will learn to live

How much of what we dismiss today may have been based on fragmentary observation, centuries ago, before the very existence of a scientific framework began to condition what facts we would and would not discover?

it was not hard to write the equations for an infinity of such parallel worlds. By logical necessity the laws of nature would vary from one to another. Therefore, somewhere in the boundlessness of reality, anything you can imagine must actually exist! Holger