Quotes About Existence

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.