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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
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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.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent... in that way.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
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