Quotes About Existence

philosopher Archie Bahm: "Nature can never be completely described, for such a description of nature would have to duplicate nature." That is, a perfect description of the universe is indistinguishable from the universe itself.

Scientist thinks there is a biology beyond earth not because we found it, it's simply because if not then earth is some sort of miracle.

Life is but a dream, within a dream.

La vida es una sombra tan sólo, que transcurre; un pobre actor que, orgulloso, consume su turno sobre el escenario para jamás volver a ser oído. Es una historia contada por un necio, llena de ruido y furia, que nada significa.

Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I thought, I listened, I longed not to exist. But life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

I am terrified by the dizzying pleasure of it: I am both here and over there; I am be and I am no longer me! Am I already dead?

The world in which we live is no more real than a moon beam reflected in water drawn from the palm of the hand...

But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere.

She would change, but she would remember. That was—growth. Growth was key to continued existence.

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.

All bodies are part of matter, created at the big bang, 10 billion years before the earth appeared. Yes, your overall body is composed of about 7 octillion venerable atoms (that's a 7 with twenty-seven zeros after it), mostly produced by exploding stars. You are literally stardust; so is everything around you.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Forget heaven and hell, yaar," he says as he leaves. "It's purgatory I'm concerned about. We call it Earth.

Hinduism professes no false certitudes. Its capacity to express wonder at Creation and simultaneously scepticism about the omniscience of the Creator are unique to Hinduism. Both are captured beautifully in this verse from the 3,500-year-old Rig Veda, the Nasadiya Sukta or Creation Hymn:

find is a lucid and reflective account of one of the world's oldest and greatest faiths and its contemporary existence.

Human beings don't live in the long run they live and suffer in the here and now

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Maybe Wolf Larsen was right, and life is simply a mess. Maybe the strong eat the weak so they can stay strong. Maybe that's all there is.

A sufficiently advanced alien is indistinguishable. And it made no difference if he believed or not. Either God is, or is not. When had it ever mattered if Humans believed?

Man is characterized by a number of things - one of 'em is he is the only animal that knows he's going to die someday.

Do you know of the uncertainty principle, Marjorie?" "I am educated," she snorted, very much annoyed with him. "Then you know that with very small things, we cannot both know where they are and what they are doing. The act of observing them always changes what they are doing. Perhaps God does not look at us individually because to do so would interrupt our work, interfere with our free will….

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.