Quotes About Existence

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother's milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms

one of the things Man doesn't need in this Universe is for God to have a sense of humor, especially a lousy one.

I decided that one of the things Man doesn't need in this Universe is for God to have a sense of humor, especially a lousy one.

It is evident that everything which does not exist at first and then exists, is determined by something other than itself.

Now, what if Others were encapsulated in Things, in a way that Being towards Things were not ontologically severable, in Heidegger's terms, from Being towards Others? What if the mode of Dasein of Others were to dwell in Things, and so forth? In the same light, then, what if the Thing were a Dublette of the Self, and not what is called the Other? Or more radically still, what if the Self were in some fundamental way becoming a Xerox copy, a duplicate, of the Thing in its assumed essence?

God created everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through" (Paul Valery).

God created him first with two faces, and separated them" (1:27).

We invent for ourselves the major part of experience," Nietzsche says in Beyond Good and Evil.

Death, the giver of Life, the slayer of Life, the beginning and the end.

O kas yra Laikas? - paklaus? gnomas. -To aš negaliu paaiškinti, ir niekas tau nepasakys, kas yra Laikas. Sako, kad Laikas susideda iš trij? skirting? dalyk?: praeities, dabarties ir ateities.

Until Islam stops fixating on the afterlife, until it is liberated from the seductive story of life after death, until it actively chooses life on earth and stops valuing death, Muslims themselves cannot get on with the business of living in this world. Perhaps

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Life keeps on happening and doesn't need us to think about it. It's constantly arising and ceasing every single moment.

There is no one creator, but there is the realm of creation.

There is no future, there is no past. Everything is now, and we are completely transparent; we have no solidity. We only look as if we had.

If the widows were widows twice or even thrice over, as was the case with many women, the problem of envy took on monstrous dimensions. To be a widow in the Islamic State was to be condemned to a rough, deprived existence in a guest house for widows.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby , like so many other great novels--the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

Human nature is so important than your life

We have passion with love and love has a connection with the soul, so the soul always exists and love does too.

Bir insan?n yaÅŸamakta olduÄŸunu salt kendisinin bilmesi yetmez, insan tek ba??na deÄŸil ki. Ä°nsan?n varolduÄŸunu baÅŸka insanlar?n da bilmesi gerekir. Ne denli insan bilirse o denli daha çok vard?r.