Quotes About Existence

For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.

Live. For Now. For the time being.

She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That's what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

How difficult it is to see The things we love With all this shadow round us, This brief time we're here.

I kill, therefore I am.

Time is different in an ancient place. Not slower, but somehow bigger, perhaps less transient.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Incarnation is an empty glass.

If tragedy is about the fact that people are mortal, then comedy is about the fools we make of ourselves on the way to the grave.

God is the best of good and the worst of evil all the time.

God: God created this violent world, he allows the evil and violence to exist in this world, he forgives evil people when they should be punished and he punishes good people when they should be forgiven. God is clearly not good.

Humanity is a disease that needs to be eradicated.

Weapons of mass destruction: Weapons of mass destruction cannot exist in a perfect world, but since the world we live in is full of evil I say keep them for your protection but always be responsible with them.

We live in an imperfect physical universe.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

We are here among people who don't contemplate transience and the existence of the soul, the meaning of life and the nature of being. We are in a world in which man, crawling on the earth, tries to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud just to survive another day.

to live is to love and to love is to live that's life

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Once you label me you negate me.

The nature of consciousness is to define what it calls reality. It's all of your observations that combine to form what it is you think reality is. God plays dice with the universe, and you be the dice, man.

We ask not "Which religion alone is true?" but "What end is most ultimate, even if many are real?" and "Which life will I hope to realize?

Nothing is ordinary,' said the tyger. 'Everything is extraordinary. In all of infinity and eternity, that flower exists only in this world; this precise posi- tion in space and time. Everywhere else, there is a different flower, or no flower at all. And the same is true of you. Nothing special? You are miraculous beyond measure, both of you.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward.