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Quotes About Existence

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
~ Descartes René 1596-1650
Ruhun Tutkunlar?
~ DESCARTES RENE
Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Vivir sin filosofar es, propiamente, tener los ojos cerrados, sin tratar de abrirlos jamás" (René Descartes)
~ DESCARTES RENE
La existencia de Dios debe tenerse en mi espíritu por tan cierta como las verdades de las matemáticas que no contemplan otra cosa que números y figuras.
~ Descartes Rene Descartes
Enjoy life, because quick as the wind blows in, it disappears the same way, what I'm hinting at, just like our lives on earth, we appear; and we also depart.
~ Deshawn Yeldell
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
~ Desmond Morris
The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The world that is perceived through any measuring scale is called maya.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The point of existence in this dynamic, ever-changing world then was not to aspire or achieve, but to introspect.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Yes, Yudhishtira, life has no point at all. So enjoy every moment for there s no tomorrow, no life after death, no soul, no fate, no bondage, no liberation, no God. Be a king if it makes you happy; dont be a king if it does not. Pleasure alone is the purpose of life.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
All Hindu rituals end with the chant 'Shanti, shanti, shanti' because the quest for peace is the ultimate goal of all existence. This peace is not external but internal. It is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
There is no evidence of a perfect world, a perfect man or a perfect family anywhere on earth.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Identity based on what we have is aham, not atma.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Accept that infinite occurrences of the universe cannot be fathomed by the finite human mind.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
there is a reality greater than what you perceive.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
the quest for peace is the ultimate goal of all existence. This peace is not external but internal. It is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
All the things that we value—justice, equality, free speech, human rights—are actually concepts churned out of imagination, just like ideas such as God, heaven, hell, rebirth and immortality. We may classify these ideas as secular or religious, rational or supernatural, value one over the other, but they are essentially creations of humans, by humans, for humans. They are artificial constructions, not natural phenomena. They have no independent existence outside humans.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
While Devas,Asuras, Nagas,Yaskhas and Devatas satisfied mundane, everyday needs, they did not answer more primal issues:Why does the world exist? Do we exist? Who are we? There was a need for God who was greater than the gods. There was need for Ishwara, the supreme lord, Mahadeva, the great god who is God, and Bhagavan, the container of all things.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
What Yudhishtira learnt—the point of existence is not to accumulate merit, but to attain wisdom. We have to ask ourselves—why do we do what we do? When we truly accept the answer, we break free from the cycle of births and deaths,
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Here the world has no beginning, no end, no value, no purpose. All meaning is created by humans, individually and collectively: the boundaries we establish and fight over.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Mythos gave purpose, meaning and validation to existence.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Everything that exists is a manifestation of the divine. And so nothing can be devoid of divinity. And so nothing can be evil.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
God had no form or name. But God existed—conscious, sentient. Humans refer to God in the masculine, but that reveals the inadequacy of human language. God is neither male nor female, neither human nor animal, neither plant nor mineral, neither wave nor particle. He is beyond it all, an entity uncontained by measurement or word.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik