Quotes About Existence

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

Theology is anthropology.

Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was a fairly commonplace intellectual exercise. But as the scientific method became increasingly refined, particularly through the nineteenth century, science and religion grew apart.

Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

The Omega Point Theory can be a solid foundation of support for all of the great human religions.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I can, therefore I am.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.