Quotes About Existence

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so?

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?

If Kayla is alive, I wonder if she really wants to be.

Two tadpoles at the bottom of a pond were one day discussing the problem of existence. One said to the other, "I think I will stick my head out to see if there is anything else in the world." The other tadpole said, "Don't be silly, do you think there is anything else in this world besides water?" So those who live the natural life ignore the beauty of the higher life of grace.

The materialists." "The head of General Motors or the woman buying groceries at the supermarket?" "Both. They both contribute to the erosion of those parts of life that are healthy, benevolent, and in harmony with nature. They are the water that cuts away at the sandy bank of our existence, making our foothold on this planet increasingly precarious.

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable.

But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting this rule gives me a funny flicker of peace.

It's just a place, not another state of being.

Treba se, dakle, baviti filozofijom ili se oprostiti od života i oti?i odavde, jer sve ostalo je golema besmislica i naklapanje.

labais tiek izteikts atbilstoši vis?s es?bas kategorij?s (..) laika kategorij? - ?stais br?dis

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

For the activity of the mind is life

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.

the actuality of thought is life

There is one end we all have – not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being – and that is happiness.

Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [...] because change is primarily a 'passing away.' So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into being and existing.

If we ought to philosophize we ought to philosophize, and if we ought not to philosophize we ought to philosophize ; in either case, therefore, we ought to philosophize. For if philosophy exists we ought certainly to philosophize, because philosophy exists ; and if it does not exist, even so we ought to examine why it does not exist, and in examining this we shall be philosophizing, because examination is what makes philosophy.

si el alma se encuentra en todo cuerpo dotado de sensibilidad y si además suponemos que el alma es un cuerpo, necesariamente habrá dos cuerpos en el mismo lugar.

those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.