Quotes About Existence

Le nihiliste a raison de penser que le monde no possède aucune justification et que lui-même n'est rien; mais il oublie qu'il lui appartient de justifier le monde et de se faire exister valablement.

only the subject can justify his own existence; no external subject, no object, can bring him salvation from the outside. He can not be regarded as a nothing, since the consciousness of all things is within him.

En la Naturaleza, nada está nunca completamente claro: los tipos, macho y hembra, no siempre se distinguen con nitidez.

Our hold on the future is limited; the movement of expansion of existence requires that we strive at every moment to amplify it; but where it stops our future stops too; beyond, there is nothing more because nothing more is disclosed.

Let us live before asking us to justify our existence

Au galop mes jours m'échappent et en chacun d'eux je languis.

Benim olan tek gerçek, edimlerimdir.

Ancak kendimden d??ar? ç?k?nca vard?r sevinç, tadland???m ÅŸeylere baÄŸland???m, varl???m? dünyaya katt???m zaman vard?r.

Y, ¿ante los ojos de quién mi conducta es fuga, si para mí es libre elección de un fin?

Es en el objeto finito que crea, donde el hombre, encontrará un reflejo fijo de su trascendencia.

erkeÄŸin tanr?lar? göÄŸün öylesine ?rak bir köÅŸesindedirler ki, gerçekte, tanr? falan yoktur onun için: küçük k?zsa, insan yüzlü tanr?lar aras?nda yaÅŸar.

Tant que les livres existeront, mon bonheur sera garanti.

Devant le sac de paille, rempli de pelotes de laine et d'un tricot inachevé, devant son buvard, ses ciseaux, son dé, l'émotion nous a submergées. C'est connu le pouvoir des objets : la vie s'y pétrifie, plus présente qu'en aucun de ses instants.

Pour moi, ma mère avait toujours existé et je n'avais jamais sérieusement pensé que je la verrais disparaître un jour, bientôt. Sa fin se situait, comme sa naissance, dans un temps mystique. Quand je me disais : elle a l'âge de mourir, c'étaient des mots vides, comme tant de mots. Pour la première fois, j'apercevais en elle un cadavre en sursis.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

An imaginary divinity has been given to man so that he may strip himself of it.

Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist.

The mind is not forced to believe in the existence of anything (subjectivism, absolute idealism, solipsism, skepticism: c.f. the Upanishads, the Taoists and Plato, who, all of them, adopt this philosophical attitude by way of purification). That is why the only organ of contact with existence is acceptance, love. That is why beauty and reality are identical. That is why joy and the sense of reality are identical.

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.

Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized. Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.