Quotes About Existence

What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.

Der verschlingener des Lebens'—'The Devourer

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular sensible entities exist in nature, and that relations abstractions, or universals cannot have any such objective existence - hence they are given a shadowy existence in the mind.

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side. The

It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone

The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

God writes His name on the soul of every man. Reason and conscience are the God within us in the natural order.

L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe

Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always been beyond her comprehension.

I will never understand why anybody who's having so precious little fun here on earth is so damned intent on living forever.

a petri dish in the ocean of life.

In thinking the of the eternal, we must link the eternal with the accidentality of our thinking

Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.

Aleshores, quan jèiem abraçats davant la finestra oberta al pendís d'oliveres (dues llavors nues dins un fruit que l'estiu ha badat violent, i que s'omple d'aire) no teníem records. Érem el record que tenim ara. Érem aquesta imatge. Els ídols de nosaltres, per la submisa fe de després.

Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too.