Quotes About Existence

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

Prvo?ísla jsou to, co zbyde, když odstraníte vÅ¡echna pravidla. Já myslím, že prvo?ísla jsou jako život. Jsou velmi logická, ale pravidla pro nÄ› nevymyslíte, ani kdybyste nad nimi strávili vÅ¡echen ?as.

And then I went out to the ocean. Do you know what it was like? The waves broke, and each time they did, as they slapped against the sand, I could feel it all through my body. And each time they broke, and each time they thudded down, they said, you have only one life, you have only one life.

What would happen if we took everything that exists in the universe, and divided it by one? I'll tell you. It would remain the same. So, therefore, how do we know that someone isn't doing that right now, at this very instant? It makes me shudder to think of it. We might be constantly divided by one, or multiplied by one for that matter, and we wouldn't even know it!

When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

Whatever is, is, and whatever is not, is not

You're always condemned to die. It's just a matter of timing.

Life is so quick that it's all played out at the gates of death, and the value of resolution is that it quickens life.

For someone who is happy, celebration is yet another channel or instrument through which happiness may course. For someone who is not, celebration is a tedious parody of existence that seems pointless and false.

No one knows better than I that it's all here, and need not be explained or interpreted—just seized.

His existence is not a question of argument but of apprehension. Either you apprehend God, or you do not.

Philosophie du progrès, "We are

If we all shift to the simulacrum, then the simulacrum, for all practical purposes, becomes the real.

A Being who's higher than we are?! LOL!

There is no tomorrow, only a string of todays. Still

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

Ubuntu—I am because you are, you are because I am…. —A DEEP AFRICAN WAY OF BEING

Because we must meet the outer world with our inner world or existence will crush us. It is a spiritual law, as real as gravity. If we don't assume our space as living beings, the rest of life will fill us completely the way water fills a hole.

We are the stage and all the players.

Being human, we struggle constantly to stay with the miracle of what is and not to fall constantly into the black hole of what is not. This is an ancient challenge. As the Sufi poet Ghalib said centuries ago, "Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not. Hearing what is can make you wise; hearing what is not can drive you mad.

So long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. —GOETHE

I discovered that living is the original art.

Professor Brown said that Mann's reconstructed planetary "average" is "possibly representative of no climate state that actually ever existed".

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.