Quotes About Being

Beden teslim olur, diye düÅŸündü. Sonsuzluk kendine ait olan? geri al?r. Bu sular? k?sa süreliÄŸine dalgaland?rm?? bedenlerimiz, hayata ve kendilerine kar?? besledikleri sevgiyle sarhoÅŸ olup dans ettikten ve birtak?m tuhaf fikirler düÅŸündükten sonra Zaman'?n araçlar?na teslim olur. Buna ne diyebiliriz ki? Ben belirdim. Yokum... ama yine de belirdim.

If it occupies space at all, be it ever so microscopic, or so infinitesimally submicroscopic, there must be some "spread." Space is simply what matter spreads its parts in. But a being with no parts at all has no spread; space and it have nothing whatever in common; it is spaceless; it is superior to the need for space.

It is obviously an overwhelming limitation that one never wholly possesses one's self, that one possesses one's being in successive moments and not simply in one act of being, that one is never all there. There is no such limitation in God. He possesses Himself wholly in one act of being. This is what we call His ETERNITY.

We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively.

The first effect of realizing that one is made of nothing is a kind of panic-stricken insecurity. One looks round for some more stable thing to clutch, and in this matter none of the beings of our experience are any more stable than we, for at the origin of them all is the same truth: all are made of nothing.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

what a man has but what a man is that's important.

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

Não existe haver , existe apenas um ser , um ser que deseja apenas um último suspiro, a asfixia.

am always on

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

Now is the only thing that exists.

Knowledge begins through them and is

Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.

People of Western culture put great value on the level of a man's knowledge but they do not value the level of a man's being and are not ashamed of the low level of their own being. They do not even understand what it means.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.

It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do not weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.

These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would put it, these are the ones who enlarge human consciousness. Their creativity is the most basic manifestation of a man or woman fulfilling his or her own being in the world.

Anxiety is not an affect among other affects, such as pleasure or sadness. It is rather an ontological characteristic of man, rooted in his very existence as such.

In human beings courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.