Quotes with existence

  • Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
  • It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
  • No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
  • We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
  • I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
  • The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
  • Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
  • The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
  • We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
  • Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anatole France Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Hannah Arendt 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.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bell Hooks No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Milan Kundera A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • John Stuart Mill All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Charles III All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry Miller Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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