Quotes About Existence

Dónde está la vida que hemos perdido viviendo? ¿Dónde está la sabiduría que hemos perdido en el conocimiento? ¿Dónde está el conocimiento que hemos perdido en la información?   T. S. ELIOT

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

Porque tudo que é vivo morre.

É verdade, o cachorro morreu. Cumpriu sua sentença e encontrou-se com o único mal irremediável, aquilo que é a marca do nosso estranho destino sobre a Terra, aquele fato sem explicação que iguala tudo o que é vivo num só rebanho de condenados, porque tudo que é vivo morre.

Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive.

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

Loving others is an example of honoring and respecting nature and all nature's creatures: it is an act of honoring their very existence and their place within nature's energy.

Todo es mágico porque todo es maravilloso y único: cada respiración, cada paso, cada vuelta a la sopa. Cada acto es un acto de magia. La magia es la vida misma.

Who knows whether living is dying, and breathingIs eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket?

Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Concerning things which exist or will exist inevitably, or which cannot possibly exist or take place, no counsel can be given.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

According to Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin, an ontology describes (a)the types of things that exist (classes), (b)the relationships between them (properties), and (c)the logical ways those classes and properties can be used together (axioms).46

If love is a precious resource, it is not one simply extracted from the Third World and implanted in the First; rather, it owes its very existence to a particular cultural alchemy that occurs in the land to which it is imported.

601If love is a precious resource, it is not one simply extracted from the Third World and implanted in the First; rather, it owes its very existence to a particular cultural alchemy that occurs in the land to which it is imported.

we possess intense, deep-seated wishes that form the basis for our concept of and belief in God. God does not create us in His image; we create God in our parents' image—or, more accurately, into the childhood image of our father. God exists only in our minds.

When, therefore, we ask what ageing is for we must give the peculiar answer that it isn't for anything; it is, instead, the evolved consequence of there being no reason to stay alive.

Una sociedad civilizada no puede admitirlos porque se oponen abiertamente a las leyes de la selección y de la lucha por la existencia, que se cumplen en el organismo social como en los inferiores.

The day after tomorrow you'll say that only the day before you saw someone who no longer exists. He stays in your memory for a split second and then vanishes.