Quotes on Existence

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.