Quotes About Existence

And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

Just as there never died a man, quoth he, But he had lived on earth in some degree, Just so there never lived a man, he said, In all this world, but must be sometime dead. This world is but a thoroughfare of woe, And we are pilgrims passing to and fro;

Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund, es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht.

Das Nichts hat sich ermordet, die Schöpfung ist seine Wunde, wir sind seine Blutstropfen, die Welt ist das Grab, worin es fault.

Die Welt ist das Chaos. Das Nichts ist der zu gebärende Weltgott.

Die Unterschiede sind so groß nicht, wir alle sind Schurken und Engel, Dummköpfe und Genies, und zwar das alles in einem: Die vier Dinge finden Platz genug in dem nämlichen Körper, sie sind nicht so breit, als man sich einbildet. Schlafen, Verdauen, Kinder machen - das treiben alle; die übrigen Dinge sind nur Variationen aus verschiedenen Tonarten über das nämliche Thema.

Lebendiges! Was nützt der tote Kram!

Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

What we call the present is usually nothing more than a combination of a fragment of the past with a fragment of the future.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

what is rational is real and what is real is rational

In the case where the self is merely represented and ideally presented (vorgestellt), there it is not actual: where it is by proxy, it is not.

The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

The real is the rational, and the rational is the real.

Logiikka pitää näin ymmärtää puhtaan järjen järjestelmänä, puhtaan ajatuksen valtakuntana. Tämä valtakunta on totuus sinänsä ja itselleen, ilman verhoa. Asia voidaan siksi ilmaista niin, että tämä sisältö on Jumalan esitystä sellaisena kuin hän on ikuisessa olemuksessaan ennen luonnon ja äärellisen hengen luomista.

The pallid shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the Present.

Self-consciousness exists in itself and for itself, in that and by the fact that it exists for another self-consciousness; that is to say, it is only by being acknowledged or recognized.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Esse est percipi.