Quotes About Existence

Souls don't have ages

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?

Är det inte roligt att leva en sån här dag, så säg! Jag tycker synd om dem som ännu inte är födda och får njuta av den. Nog för de kan få vara med om andra härliga dagar, men just den här får de inte...

The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]

Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]

T]he object of any subject is nothing else than the subject's own nature taken objectively.

Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; … it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.

L]et it be remembered that atheism … is the secret of religion … ; religion … in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Each planet has its own sun. … [I]t really is another sun on Uranus … The relation of the Sun to the Earth is therefore at the same time a relation of the Earth to itself, or to its own nature … Hence each planet has in its sun the mirror of its own nature.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive forever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics. The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside. In such a way that they have the whole world as background.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself. (Wittgenstein commenting on Sartre's Hell is other people.