Existence Quotes - page 2

As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. (Oscar Wilde)
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. View quote
Grover Cleveland
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. View quote
William Blake
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. View quote
David Hilbert
Time wasted is existence used is life. View quote
Edward Young
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. (Herbert Marcuse)
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. View quote
Milan Kundera
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. View quote
Milan Kundera
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. View quote
Ronald Reagan
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. View quote
David McCallum
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. View quote
Carson McCullers
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. (Christian Lous Lange)
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. View quote
Charles Darwin
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld