Quotes About Existence

The algorithm has some kind of disembodied 'existence' which is quite apart from any realization of that algorithm in physical terms.

In some Platonic sense, the natural numbers seem to be things that have an absolute conceptual existence independent of ourselves.

CAN YOU FREE YOURSELF ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE REALITY OF LIFE AS IT GOES ON BEFORE YOU AND WITH YOU, AND AS YOU GO ON AS PART OF IT? OR NOT? BECAUSE IF YOU CAN'T YOU STAND ON SQUARE ONE, UNTIL YOU DIE.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

El filósofo transforma los planteamientos iniciales relativos al concepto, y afirma la existencia de un «mundo de las ideas», que es modelo del mundo real. Este mundo es para Platón mucho más real que el que habitualmente llamamos «realidad». El mundo de las ideas es incluso, por así decir, el único mundo real.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

a mouth which does not confess disproves the existence of a heart that believes. The soul cannot be God's and the life not God's at the same time. The soul cannot be recreated and the life remain unchanged.

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

secularism cannot escape religion, since religion is the reason the secular state exists at all.

Nihilismul începe acolo unde unde înceteaz? voin?a de a se în?ela pe sine însu?i. Dar, f?r? aceast? voin??, nu am avea nici be?ia, nici arta, nici iubirea.

Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. —James Baldwin

next, showed up for work in the morning, washed the dishes, fed the dog, settled down in front of the TV to gaze at the lives of others, imaginary and real, as we plodded along toward old age. On

Look at me, I'm not worthy of your anger, I'm nothing but a dumb animal who can't prevent the noisy symptoms of his decay, so don't waste your time with me, don't dirty your hands by hitting me, just try to put up with the fact that I exist. I'm not asking you to like me, I know that's impossible, because I'm not likeable, but at least do me the kindness of despising me enough to ignore me

What a beautiful thing, to walk amidst the endless diversity of life with the ability to perceive the source and the reality of its unity.

Vet jeg hvor virkeligheten er? Er jeg rot eller er jeg krone? Er det ikke stjerner også der, av svakt lysende sten?

To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL, THE

Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

But in neurotic anxiety, two conditions are necessary: (1) the threat must be to a vital value; and (2) the threat must be present in juxtaposition with another threat so that the individual cannot avoid one threat without being confronted by another. In patterns of neurotic anxiety, the values held essential to the individual's existence as a personality are in contradiction with each other.

if the person did not have anxiety, he or she would also not have freedom. Anxiety demonstrates that values, no matter how beclouded, do exist in the person. Without values there would be only barren despair.