Quotes About Existence

The best reason to take your time is that this time is the only time you'll ever have.

La maggior parte della vita è così monotona che non c'è proprio niente da dirne, e i libri e i discorsi che la descrivono come una cosa interessante sono costretti a calcare la mano,nella speranza di giustificare la propria esistenza.

Io sono come il sonnambulo che cammina lungo il crinale di un tetto a passi sicuri e con calma lui cammina senza vedere senza udire Ma qualcuno lo assale con urla via via sempre più forti si risveglia e piomba giù dal tetto al di fuori dei suoi sogni Non fatemi questo non questo io serenamente cammino dentro ai sogni che sono la mia vita soltanto così posso vivere

When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here.

We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

For most of history, organized religions have claimed sovereignty over the meaning of human existence. For their founders and leaders the enigma has been relatively easy to solve. The gods put us on Earth, then they told us how to behave. Why should people around the world continue to believe one fantasy over another out of the more than four thousand that exist on Earth? The answer is tribalism

It follows that most people would very much like science to prove the existence of God but not to take the measure of His capacity.

except for behaving like apes much of the time and suffering genetically limited life spans, we are godlike.

Earth relates to the Universe as the second segment of the left antenna of an aphid sitting on a flower petal in a garden in Teaneck, New Jersey, for a few hours this afternoon.

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion, our existence depends on this propensity, our spirit is woven from it hope rises on its currents.

It can't be easy, living in the park." "Maybe it was a greater effort being who he was.

Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.

Through the whole epoch of her prosperity, through the long Olympiads of her decay, through centuries after her fall, Athens looked back on the day of Marathon as the brightest of her national existence.

The great power of adopting a scientific approach to human behavior is the ability to unmask deep puzzles about human existence that otherwise hide in plain sight.

If you are proud that God loves you, that He has given you great gifts, then you are acknowledging His existence and dependence on Him—and that is humility.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do not matter, so a philosopher may wonder why he invents cases that cannot occur in order to determine what must be the case.

Most of culture lies hidden and is outside voluntary control, making up the warp and weft of human existence. Even when small fragments of culture are elevated to awareness, they are difficult to change, not only because they are so personally experienced but because people cannot act or interact at all in any meaningful way except through the medium of culture.

Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." ~ Rumi

In eternity, there is no 'time' for anything to begin or end, therefore, past, present, future represent a linear progression that goes nowhere.