Quotes About Existence

a man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence.

Life is a gift of nature but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.

For none of the others can exist independently: substance alone is independent: for everything is predicated of substance as subject.

If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?

existence is to all men a thing to be chosen and loved, and that we exist by virtue of activity (i.e. by living and acting), and that the handiwork is in a sense, the producer in activity; he loves his handiwork, therefore, because he loves existence.

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is not a contribution to the science of Nature.

For if Being is just one, and one in the way mentioned, there is a principle no longer, since a principle must be the principle of some thing or things.

We physicists, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion—which is indeed made plain by induction.

Being will not have magnitude, if it is substance. For each of the two parts must be in a different sense.

It is, (10) then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.

Lastly (4) in each of his infinite bodies there would be already present infinite flesh and blood and brain—having a distinct existence, however, from one another, and no less real than the infinite bodies, and each infinite: which is contrary to reason.

Existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinent.

There never was a time when there was not motion.

Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?

And if you don't like that you can acquaint yourself with the axioms that neither you nor anybody else are the centre of the universe and that what you call complications are simply another name for life itself. Worry is life, and life is worry. And the absence of worry is death.

And without the power to concentrate—that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience—true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is.

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.

If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot.

Yet a little while, she thought, and I shall be lying on a bed like that! And what shall I have lived for? What is the meaning of it? The riddle of life itself was killing her, and she seemed to drown in a sea of inexpressible sorrow.

Van zichzelf mag hij er niet zijn, dat hij er toch is komt omdat hij het zijn ouders niet aan kan doen er niet te zijn. Geen liefde kan aan de sensatie er van jezelf niet te mogen zijn een eind maken, daarom moet je er ook niemand mee lastig vallen.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzaak ontbreekt'.