The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Maria Montessori

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

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

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
Ho Chi Minh

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

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

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

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Tadao Ando

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley

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

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Louis Aragon

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

Death does not exist.
Edith Piaf

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

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

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
Dennis Rodman

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
Martin Van Buren

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Barbara Kingsolver

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

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