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

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.
Jennifer Saunders

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Ninon de L'Enclos

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

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

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
Thomas S. Monson

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

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore De Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
Paul Allen

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?
Paul Allen

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

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
Brigitte Bardot

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

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
Mikhail Bakunin

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

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
S. E. Hinton

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Walter Lippmann