Quotes About Existence

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead', and I find I can't.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

It's actually a privileged existence - I get to do some work, but I can walk down the street and have an absolutely normal life, rather than existing in some strange bubble.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

When you die, I think you re-live your life in a different dimension, in a different world but I don't believe in aliens.

I disagree with the idea that everything happens for a reason.

I don't believe in death. I just don't think all that love and all that energy can just disappear into nothing.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I don't know what's so disappointing about being alive, but I will say that the longer I'm alive, the more I appreciate not dying.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Consciousness is a disease.

If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing.

There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.