Quotes About Existence

Consider the way that so many people nowadays use the word "imaginary" to mean "unreal." In actuality, of course, what we imagine is real in its own way, and it can be powerful and important as well.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good

No light, but rather darkness visible.

For who would lose,Though full of pain, this intellectual being,Those thoughts that wander through eternity,To perish rather, swallow'd up and lostIn the wide womb of uncreated night,Devoid of sense and motion?

And on the Tree of Life,The middle tree and highest there that grew,Sat like a cormorant.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd highOf Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

Rather than be lessCar'd not to be at all.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Truth in its entirety is but the ideal transcript of the universe. It is the mirrored reflection of all fact and being—the thought and will of the Creator as written and revealed by all that exists, material and spiritual, with all their laws, relations, changes, evolutions, and history. More—the

God doesn't need to come down upon a mountain, for the mountain itself is the revelation. We only have to look at it and we will know how we should live.

Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question "Why was it made?' goes on and on, with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself.

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.

Søren Kierkegaard was a philosopher of the human spirit. To come to understand what he is saying is to be challenged as a person, the challenge is in the form of an interrogation, the topic of which is very simple: you are an existing person, a human being; do you treat this fact with the seriousness and respect it demands? Or would you rather avoid the question?

It is better to have been, then not to have been, then to have been nothing at all." What truly is logic? Who decides reason? "It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found."-JOHN NASH JR.

I have lived. Now there must be others.

It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, 'Being here is so much,' and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.

he was never really in any of these places, excepting in the place wherever pain lived

Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.

the historical Jesus is neither the real Jesus nor the easy way to him. The real Jesus is not available and never will be. This is true not because Jesus did not exist -he certainly did- but rather because the sources that have survived do not and never intended to record all or even most of the words and deeds of his public ministry-to say nothing of the rest of his life.

We are not human beings having a temporary spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

All that exists deserves to perish.

It is not thinking that determines being, but being that determines thinking.