Existence Quotes

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

Fear, Help, Moment

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Fear, Reason

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Time, Job, Someone

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus

Free, Become, Act

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan

Far, Purpose, Possible

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Fear, Opinion

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy

Power, Poetry, Him

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

Struggle, Same, Cannot

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle

Choose, Condition, Friendless

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing, State, Fate

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan

Political, Another, State

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle

Life, Good, State

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Present, Imperfect, Tense

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Him, Absurdity

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather, Against, Argument

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

Love, Human, Problem

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Shirley MacLaine

Anyone, Ourselves, Profound

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung

Human, Light, Far

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw

Pain, Before, Five

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

Men, Society, Free

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Education, Give

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser

Love, Power, Understand

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm

Problem, Animal, Solve

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Future, Dream, Means

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud

Nor, Number, Large

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck

Mind, Matter, Behind

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale

Life, Peace, Stress

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Life, Person, Find

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

War, Human, Fact

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