Quotes About Existence

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

social existence remains a dream only because the thoughts and feelings of the human animal are blocked off from the simple and obvious.

Foi Galileu, não Nero, quem assentou os fundamentos da tecnologia; Pasteur, e não Napoleão, quem combateu as enfermidades; Freud, e não Schickgruber, quem sondou as profundidades psíquicas. Foram esses cientistas, em suma, que asseguraram a nossa existência. Os outros apenas abusaram das realizações de grandes homens para destruir o processo vital. As raízes da ciência natural penetram mais fundo que qualquer transitório tumulto fascista.

Buna göre insan olman?n anlam?, insan olman?n bütün imkanlar?n? denemekte yat?yor olabilir.

dokunman?n önemi öyle büyüktür ki, handiyse antropolojik diye tan?mlayabiliriz onu: insan olmak, ona ba?l?d?r. her bireyin hayat?nda iyice diplere at?lm?? bir çapad?r bu tecrübe: dokunuyor ve dokunuluyorsam, duyusal olarak, ruhsal olarak, zihinsel olarak ve ola ki a?k?n anlamda da, ya??yorumdur. Dokunma olmadan hayat? hissedemem. p.17

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

The years tumble past you like bits of paper on the street and you may not even feel the breeze at your back but then something catches your eye, a twist of black hair or a dog leaping to catch a tennis ball. The splintered chorus of a stupid pop song. You turn around and another chunk of your life drifts by like unrecognized trash and it was never yours to begin with.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

O fato central de nossa existência é que o tempo é o recurso finito supremo, mas o eu recordativo ignora essa realidade.

The remembering self is the one that answers the question: "How was it, on the whole?" Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

An essential design feature of the associative machine is that it represents only activated ideas. Information that is not retrieved (even unconsciously) from memory might as well not exist.

the central fact of our existence is that time is the ultimate finite resource, but the remembering self ignores that reality

It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

Natürlich, es ist das Ende, und wir sterben. Aber das heißt nicht, dass wir nicht noch lange da sein, andere Menschen finden, spazierengehen, nachts träumen und alles erledigen können, was eine Marionette so tut.

Ich habe diese Welt nicht anders vorgefunden als gehüllt in mein Bewusstsein; wie also kann ich gehen, ohne sie mitzunehmen? Und gesetzt selbst, dass sie alle, Berge, Häuser, Sonne (und ich bezweifle es) durch und für andere Wesen fortbestehen, - es werden andere sein, nicht diese Berge, diese Häuser, diese Sonne.

È bizzarro e ingiusto, disse Gauss, il fatto che si nasce in una determinata epoca e, volenti o nolenti, vi si resta imprigionati: un esempio calzante della penosa accidentalità dell'esistenza. Così uno ha un vantaggio spropositato rispetto al passato e diventa lo zimbello del futuro.

Die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, und wenn wir sie erkennen, sind sie genauso, wie wenn es andere tun oder keiner.

Mnoge umiruje ?injenica da sveštenici još uvek postoje, da hodaju zemljom, da služe mise, da se mole i ponašaju kao da ?ovek ima dušu i kao da postoji nada za ljude. Tako i sam mislim kad vidim sveštenika koga ne poznajem. Ali kada se pogledam u ogledalo, to više ne funkcioniše.

Seltsam sei es und ungerecht, sagte Gauß, so recht ein Beispiel für die erbärmliche Zufälligkeit der Existenz, dass man in einer bestimmten Zeit geboren und ihr verhaftet sei, ob man wolle oder nicht. Es verschaffe einem einen unziemlichen Vorteil vor der Vergangenheit und mache einen zum Clown der Zukunft.

Signore e signori, che cos'è la morte? In realtà non solo l'estinzione dell'individuo o gli attimi del trapasso, ma già il lungo declino che la precede, quel rilassamento che si dilata negli anni; il periodo in cui un uomo c'è ancora, ma allo stesso tempo non c'è più e in cui, anche se la sua statura è ormai andata a farsi benedire, può ancora dare a intendere di esistere. Signore e signori, è questo il modo sopraffino con cui la natura ha regolato la nostra morte!