Quotes About Existence

O fígado representa um vasto e hediondo mistério, para nós. Se alguma vez comeu fígado frito, compreende o que quero dizer. Os estudos mais recentes permitem-nos concluir que ele existe de facto e fazer uma ideia geral da sua acção, quando funciona devidamente. Para além disso, ainda navegamos nas trevas.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?' 'I do,' Dunbar told him. 'Why?' Clevinger asked. 'What else is there?

I verily beleive [sic] Page that I shall die soon, and yet I can give no other reason for it but that I am tired with living. At this moment when I am writing I am scarcely sensible that I exist.

If it should be revealed or demonstrated that there is no future state, my advice to every man, woman, and child would be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to take opium."48

In truth, it would be misleading to say that local and state concerns trumped the national interest, because in most minds no such thing as the national interest even existed.

I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, nor ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose, and at least tried to make a difference in this world.

liability shield unlike any other in existence.

Give your attention to living life.

Nothing in this transitory world lasts eternally; however, the Truths of God last forever.

It's really not about doing, it's more about being. You might find it relaxing," said Pooh. "I know I do.

if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for?

That is what is meant by the proposition omne ens est verum (everything that is, is true)—though we have almost ceased to understand it—and by the complementary proposition that being and truth are interchangeable concepts. (What does truth mean, where things are concerned, the truth of things? "A thing is true" means: it is known and knowable, known to the absolute spirit, knowable to the spirit that is not absolute.

Children are the great gamble. From the moment they are born, our helplessness increases. Instead of being ours to mould and shape after our best knowledge and endeavour, they are themselves. From their birth they are the centre of our lives, and the dangerous edge of existence.

Again from Napoleon: The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man — reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

since time, space, and matter did not exist prior to the beginning of the universe, then the "cause" of the universe had to be timeless, spaceless, and immaterial. Further

the cosmological argument. The idea is that everything that begins to exist must have a cause.

1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3. Therefore the universe has a cause.

Women, because what are they worth? Men, because what are they worth? Music, because what is it worth? and, more importantly with music, what exactly is the it?

Everything was always something, but something—and here was the rub—could never be everything.

Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

Remember you are this universe and this universe is you.

But you must have grown out of a thousand years dreaming just like I could never imagine you. You must have broke open from another sky to here, because now I see you as a part of the millions of other universes that I thought could never occur in this breathing. And I know you as myself, traveling. In your eyes alone are many colonies of stars and other circling planet motion.