Existence Quotes - page 4

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. (Herbert Read)
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires. A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. View quote
Ted Chiang
The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them. View quote
Murray Leinster
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. View quote
Lord Byron
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. View quote
Hannah Arendt
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence. (Carroll Quigley)
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. View quote
Mark Twain
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man. View quote
Al Capone
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another. View quote
Pliny the Elder
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. View quote
Joseph Conrad
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. View quote
Saul Bellow
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. View quote
Noam Chomsky
From wonder into wonder existence opens. (Laozi)
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. View quote
Isaac Newton
Existence precedes and rules essence. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time. View quote
Ervin László
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. View quote
John F. Kennedy