Quotes with non-existence

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  • William James The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Aldous Huxley The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Henry Miller The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Santayana The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Vi Putnam The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.
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  • George Orwell The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Graham The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Boris Sidis The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ''I,'' under another form, continues the task of existence.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Caleb Deschanel The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great problems of life, including of course sex, are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are balancing and compensating factors that correspond to the problems which life confronts us with in reality. This is not matter for astonishment, since these images are deposits of thousands of years of experience of the struggle for existence and for adaptation.
    Psychological Types (1921)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Paul E. Little The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Eric Hoffer The 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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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ben Nicholson The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
    Notes on Abstract Art in Herbert Reads Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings (London, 1948)
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Booker T. Washington The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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