Quotes About Existence

El hombre es la medida de todas las cosas», dijo el filósofo griego Protágoras, una línea que bien podría describir también el espíritu de la nueva era que se abría en Europa.

Descartes defendía que el mejor método consistía en comenzar aceptando como verdaderas únicamente aquellas ideas que quedaban con claridad fuera de dudas. Ni la autoridad, ni tan siquiera nuestros propios sentidos deben hacernos aceptar una supuesta verdad. Solo son ciertas las cosas de las que podemos estar seguros. Y el primer principio de este método es «pienso, luego existo».

Medieval metaphysicians believed nature pointed to God. Nominalists did not.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always." Albert Schweitzer

God is dead." Friedrich Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead." God

A place . . . a time . . . where a man can live his life full measure.

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

There were days when I didn't exist; he saw through me and walked around me. I was invisible. There were days when I liked not existing. I closed down, stopped thinking, stopped looking...There were days when I couldn't even feel pain. They were the best ones. I could see it happening. There was no ground under me, nothing to fall to. I was able to not care. I could float. I didn't exist

a single point in space and time.

All people suffer from the dread of death, but we are mostly troubled by the uncertainties of time and circumstance.

Knowledge begins through them and is

foundations On which life and existence rest. For not only would all reasoning collapse, But so, straight away, would life itself, Unless we choose to trust the senses, And avoid precipitous places And other things of the kind that are to be shunned.9 <> As to the error and uncertainty of the

La pregunta que nos asalta es: ¿sólo podemos escapar del determinismo gracias al azar de una vida sin sentido?

Si la vida de una persona está sujeta a sus circunstancias, sus memorias, sus aptitudes y sus tendencias, es difícil encontrar un espacio para la libertad, pues parece sometida a una estructura determinista. Pero si la persona, para tomar decisiones libres, pudiera ser insensible a su entorno y a su pasado, entonces viviría una vida sometida al azar. ¿Sería una vida basada en la libertad o más bien una existencia sumergida en el absurdo?

Creation came into existence out of nothing. The same power which first created the universe now sustains it. Happy is the one who has learned to lean his all on the sure Word of Him who built the skies.

This is a visualisation aimed at clients who need to relax. The story involves a walk along a cliff path, with sensory stimulation (sights, sounds, smells) for clients to experience in their imagination. They can leave the stresses of everyday life behind and move forward into a more relaxed existence.

Plantinga explained, the scientific search for truth assumes nature is not all there is. If nature is all there is, then truth itself is a chimera and our human faculties for discovering and knowing it are unreliable.

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.

Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at the moment that they are first humanly perceived.

Consciousness is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

To me the world of perfect forms is primary (as was Plato's own belief)-its existence being almost a logical necessity-and both the other two worlds are its shadows.

I argue that the phenomenon of consciousness cannot be accommodated within the framework of present-day physical theory.