Existence Quotes

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
Ernst Mach

Today, Person, Different

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Oscar Niemeyer

Dreams, Daily, Humanity

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
David Packard

Good, Money, Important

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
Lesley Garrett

Music, Harsh, Fabric

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
Louis Leakey

America, Since, Africa

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
Andy Hertzfeld

Rather, Few, Year

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
Vernor Vinge

Fact, Minds, General

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Experience, Knowledge, Human

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
William Henry Hudson

Animal, Exception, Monkeys

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Real, Lie, Exists

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
Jacky Ickx

Age, Yourself, Means

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
David Chalmers

Accept, Actually

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
David Chalmers

Nature, Character, Brain

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
G. Gordon Liddy

Death, Fear, Through

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
Evan Parker

Music, History, Character

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
Walter Kaufmann

Two, Cannot, Suffering

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
Walter Kaufmann

Life, Nature, God

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.
Jim Parsons

Enjoy, Two, York

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.
Michael Polanyi

Creative, Evolution, Acts

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Nature, Science, Political

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
Thom Mayne

Ideas, Ourselves, Taking

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway

Women, History, Human

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille

God, Place, Means

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
Asa Gray

Life, Whole, Animal

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
Julius Wellhausen

After, Wish, Between

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
Adam Arkin

Experience, Daily, Same

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
Frederick Soddy

Life, Nature, Struggle

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
Kurt Sutter

Fear, Successful, Gratitude

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
Slick Rick

Through, Growth, Hiphop

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