Quotes About Existence

Hidup ini Anakku, hidup ini tak ada harganya sama sekali. Tunggulah saatnya, dan kelak engkau akan berpikir, bahwa sia-sia saja Tuhan menciptakan manusia di dunia ini.

Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own ancestors did when faced with death, by believing that there is life after death. How would they resolve the problem that in the afterlife they might once more be eaten by man?

Cinta ini indah, Minke, terlalu indah, yang bisa didapatkan dalam hidup manusia yang pendek ini.

Ya, mengapa kita ini harus mati seorang diri? Lahir seirang diri pula? Dan mengapa kita ini harus hidup di satu dunia yang banyak manusianya? Dan kalau kita sudah manusia, dan orang itu pun mencintai kita. Seperti mendiang kawan kita itu misalnya–mengapa kemudian kita harus bercerai-cerai dalam maut. Seorang. Seorang. Seorang. Dan seorang lagi lahir. Seorang lagi. Seorang lagi. Mengapa orang ini tak ramai-ramai lahir dan ramai-ramai mati? Aku ingin dunia ini seperti Pasarmalam.

Jangan lupa tuan kolonel, dia seniman---hidup hanya di alam perasaan.

Hidup yang berarti, dan mati lebih berarti lagi.

Tanpa keberanian hidup adalah tanpa irima. Hidup tanpa irama adalah samadhi tanpa pusat.

Pengertian adalah hidup. Hidup adalah dihidupi dan menghidupi.

Yang tidak memerlukan Hyang Mahadewa juga tidak diperlukan olehnya. Tetapi hukumnya berjalan terus, dengan atau tanpa manusia.

Philosophy is the child of sorrow

we are feelings and we have human beings

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

Look not upon nature, for her name is fatal.- Proc. in Plat. Th. 143

All things pray except the First

God's existence is not dependent upon any human believing or disbelieving that he does.

Reality is not an autonomous imagination.

The reason of life is to live a life of reason.

They say, nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, and they have forgotten the speed of the soul.

We need to concentrate on reality, not what could have been.

In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.

Man is the measure of all things.

This being had only come to me, only manifested itself outside of activity and immediate enjoyment, on those rare occasions when the miracle of an analogy had made me escape the present. And only this being had the power to perform that task which had always defeated the efforts of my memory and my intellect, the power to make me rediscover days that were long past, the Time that was Lost.

An atheist is one point beyond the devil.

Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of our being.