Quotes on Existence

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

Our social networks, our news, our mundane existence and our important moments are all mediated by algorithms, whose proprietary, profit-driven, ad-financed nature seeps into every small micro-interaction.

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all... I went through the stage of asking myself, 'Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can't be.' So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.