Quotes About Existence

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

However, we have never met a sincere solipsist and we doubt that any exist.52 This illustrates an important principle that we shall use several times in this chapter: the mere fact that an idea is irrefutable does not imply that there is any reason to believe it is true.

Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.

The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.

What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.