Quotes About Being

think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.

The main thing was to be living. That was the main thing.

Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben

just like the moon, life surely has a side that is perpetually turned away from us and which is not its opposite but adds to its perfection and completeness, to the truly intact and full sphere of being.

You said live out loud, and die you said lightly, and over and over again you said be.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

The main thing was being alive. That was the main thing.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up, that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you... Every heightening is good if it is in your whole blood, if it is not intoxication, not turbidity, but joy which one can see clear to the bottom. Do you understand what I mean?

To understand our being here as one side of being in its entirety and to exhaust it passionately, this would be the demand placed on us by death; while life, as long as one truly admits it, is in every spot all of life.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night; and history is an impertinence and an injury, if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend to what addresses the senses.

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceed obviously from the same source... Here is the fountain of action and of thought... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

If only I have right of seeing In this wilderness of being And from the vision glorious Must come back to my lonely house.