Quotes About Existence

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future.

Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind.

The sun of quality," he wrote, "does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has created them. They are subordinate to it!

The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

C'est toujours stupide de mourir. - Oui, dit Gabet en tournant vers Maillat son visage naïf, on ne voit pas très bien à quoi ça sert, n'est-ce pas?

His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down to die at the end of every day, without thinking anything of it, was something he had not yet acquired.

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.

Unsere Zeit ist eine Zeit der Erfüllung, und Erfüllungen sind immer Enttäuschungen.

Ich weiß jetzt nichts von Rätseln. Alles geschieht: Das ist die ganze Weisheit.

Every man is two people, and one hardly knows whether it is in the morning or in the evening that he reverts to his real self.

Ä°nsan ne yaparsa yaps?n, dedi Niteliksiz Adam kendi kendine, omuzlar?n? silkerek çeÅŸitli güçlerden oluÅŸan bu yuma??n içinde bu, hiç, ama hiç önem ta??m?yor!

Se existe um sentido de realidade, também devia haver um sentido de possibilidade.

The fact was that belief in them had to be there before they themselves could be there; if one did not look at the world with the world's eyes, the world already in one's own gaze, it fell apart into meaningless details that live as sadly far apart from each other as the stars in the night-sky.

Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!

Ein Wissender weiß, dass nichts wahr ist und die ganze Wahrheit erst am Ende aller Tage liegt.

Ein tiefer Graben unweltlicher Herkunft schien sie und ihn in ein Nirgendland einzuschließen.

Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben.

Chaque vérité éternelle existe en double, en multiples exemplaires.

Moral war für ihn weder Botmäßigkeit, noch Gedankenweisheit, sondern das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Via?a obi?nuit? este o stare intermediar? alc?tuit? din toate crimele de care suntem capabili.

Whoever cannot say "Yes" to life should at least utter the "No" of the saint.

Do you ever think about the rocks? he said. How does that go? Maybe they are alive and their hearts beat once every thousand years and they only need to take a breath every five hundred.

you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History.