Exist Quotes

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Soul, Against

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust

Mind, Self, Person

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell Lowell

True, Mean, Knowing

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
Mikhail Bakunin

God, Best, Earth

The Beatles will exist without us.
George Harrison

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham

Together, Cannot, Creative

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death, Living, Dead

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Exists, Explain, Deny

Better not to exist than live basely.
Sophocles

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Necessary, Evils

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan Watts

Cannot, Between, Natural

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana

Money, May, Cannot

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James Madison

Political, Done, Darkness

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Corruption, Study, Phenomenon

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Stendhal

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Evil, Cannot

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Anna Magnani

Great, Liars, May

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
Deepak Chopra

God, Death, Medical

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker

Country, Learned, Child

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Rush Limbaugh

Change, Health, Government

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
Charles Baudelaire

God, Order, Reign

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
Giacomo Casanova

Knowledge, Feeling, Giving

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Emile M. Cioran

Life, Decision, Since

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

Change, Mature, Oneself

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
Michelle Branch

Music, Cool, Before

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley

Evil, Makes, Pious

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus

Great, Cannot, Honor

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve Martin

Music, Art, Around

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs

Real, Order, Quality

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