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Quotes About Existence

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
~ Norbert Wiener
In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.
~ Hortense Powdermaker
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
~ Paul Berg
We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.
~ Stefan Molyneux
The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
~ James Jeans
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.
~ H. L. Mencken
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
~ Martin Heidegger
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
~ John F. Kennedy
Thing in Everything
~ Syed Sharukh
Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.
~ Kim Wright
Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
~ Rhys Darby
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
~ Richard Dawkins
I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
~ Ron Perlman
Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.
~ John Frusciante
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
~ Isaac Asimov
Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence.
~ Rajneesh
I'm thankful that every day I actually get to wake up.
~ Andrew Chan
Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.
~ Rajneesh
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~ William Faulkner