Quotes About Existence

Forse la terra è l'inferno di un altro pianeta.

We shall all be 'was' one of these days. Meanwhile....

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

La mayoría de los hombres y las mujeres llevan vidas tan pobres y limitadas en el mejor, que el afán de escapar, el ansia de trascender de sí mismo aunque sólo sea por breves momentos es, y ha sido siempre, uno de los principales apetitos del alma

I am I, and I wish I wasn't

A felicidade universal mantém as engrenagens em funcionamento regular; a verdade e a beleza são incapazes de fazê-lo.

Query: how to combine the belief that the world is a to a great extent illusory with belief that it is none the less essential to improve the illusion? How to be simultaneously dispassionate and not indifferent, serene like an old man and active like a young one?

You know the formula: m over nought equals infinity, m being any positive number? Well, why not reduce the equation to a simpler form by multiplying both sides by nought? In which case, you have m equals infinity times nought. That is to say that a positive number is the product of zero and infinity. Doesn't that demonstrate the creation of the universe by an infinite power out of nothing?

Ahora y aquí, muchachos.

El cáncer de pulmón, los accidentes de tránsito y los millones de alcohólicos miserables y transmisores de miseria son hechos todavía más ciertos de lo que era en tiempos de Dante el hecho del Infierno.

Para dentro a Fenomenologia do Espírito. Para fora o pão de milho.

Havia uma coisa chamada Céu. Mas, apesar de tudo, bebiam enormes quantidades de álcool.

Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds, may be thought of [...] as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godhead's creative energy.

Ninguém precisa ir a parte alguma. Como seria bom que todos soubessem disso! Se apenas soubesse quem realmente sou, deixaria de proceder como penso que sou. E se parasse de me comportar como penso ser, saberia quem sou. Se ao menos o MANIQUEÍSTA que penso ser me permitisse ser o que de fato sou, o sim e o não viveriam reconciliados na abençoada aceitação da experiência de Ser Único.

Huxley was fascinated by the fact that 'the same person is simultaneously a mass of atoms, a physiology, a mind, an object with a shape that can be painted, a cog in the economic machine, a voter, a lover etc'

Âdem'in yarat?ld??? günün sabah?nda gördüklerini görüyordum: Ç?plak varoluÅŸ mucizesini, anbean yenilenen mucizeyi. Nas?l, iyi mi? diye sordu biri. Ne iyi ne de deÄŸil, dedim. Sadece öyle.

Aldous Huxley

All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably human, one travels comfortable and secure, contriving to forget that all round and below and above them stretches the blind mass of earth, endless and unexplored.

Lo que importaba era más la felicidad que la verdad y la belleza.

Daimi bir yokolu?, ayn? zamanda saf bir varolu?tur.

It is a knowledge of the intrinsic significance of every existent. For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living hieroglyphs that stand in some peculiarly expressive way for the unfathomable mystery of pure being.

I am, and wish I wasn't.

Neither agreeable nor disagreeable," I answered. "It just is.