We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.
Friedrich August von Hayek

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John Stuart Mill

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
Steve Allen

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
Calvin Klein

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Michel Foucault

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Jeanne Moreau

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
Protagoras

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

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra Pound

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Taylor Caldwell

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.
Peter Sellers

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
Hans Bender

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Hans Bender

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett