Quotes About Existence

Hernhutter, în?elept, îl aprob? ?i d?du drept exemplu existen?a uman?: nimeni nu în?elege nimic ?i tocmai de aceea o accept? ca pe un lucru firesc.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

have known that their Edict, if enforced, was the clear equivalent of an order to create an illicit drug industry. They must have known that they were in effect ordering a company of drug smugglers into existence.

The policy of prohibition summoned these characters into existence, because it needs them. So long as it lives, they live.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

Ja wohl bin ich nur ein Wandrer, ein Waller auf der Erde! Seid ihr denn mehr?

A useless life is only an early death

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

One lives but once in the world.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.