Quotes About Existence

A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

although the universe itself isn't a conscious entity, it possesses the raw materials that, when properly set into motion, create consciousness. It has the ability to create intelligent life, which is capable of understanding the universe... It can know itself indirectly

He taught that to be at peace, we must accept the impermanence of life and existence.

It's a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering," replied Colbert. "I don't want it to have happened . . . but if you are grateful for your life . . . then you have to be grateful for all of it. You can't pick and choose what you're grateful for.

Only to be mindful, therefore, is to be truly alive.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves.

One of the questions that always puzzled human history is, what are we, and everything around us, made of.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like what happened before the big bang?

The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.

Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches. So, the whole idea of gospel quartet singing is something I never knew existed until I began to hear it on record.

Not only does the title 'We're Here' highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world or something different from it?'

To apologize for the Balfour Declaration would be to apologize for the existence of Israel and to question its right to exist. Here in Britain, we will not merely mark the centenary - we will celebrate it with pride.

It's questionable whether I believe in God or Jesus but I do believe in a spiritual world and some kind of afterlife.

I've always questioned death and birth and life. Where do we go? Are we here now? Or is this just one of the lives that we live?

I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.