Quotes About Existence

philosophy of nature, albeit a rival to the Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Hence to characterize the very field of the philosophy of nature as essentially concerned with change might seem to beg the question in favor of the Aristotelian approach. Better to characterize it instead in terms of what both sides agree upon, viz. the existence of the empirical and material world.

Change just is the realization of some potentiality; or as Aquinas puts it, "motion is the actuality of a being in potency

God is real, unless declared integer.

All human life is there.

How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk.

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.

The only thing We [God] say to a thing, when We desire it, is that We say to it, "Be," and it is.

They will question thee concerning the soul. Say: "The spirit is the concern of my Lord, and you have been given of knowledge nothing except a little."

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Have not the unbelievers then beheld that the heavens and the earth were a mass all sewn up, and then We unstitched them and of water fashioned every living thing? Will they not believe?

The chicken came first — God would look silly sitting on an egg.

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee?

Awareness is a flower that blooms but never dies.

Who sees Me in all,And sees all in Me,For him I am not lost,And he is not lost for Me.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.

My days are consumed like smoke.

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from?

Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM.

They say, "There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us." Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.