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Existence Quotes
"That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence."
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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
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"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2."
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"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."
"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
"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."
"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer."
"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."
"The first and by far the most likely pattern is a return to agrarian existence."
"The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods."
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
"We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed."
"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
"For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence."
"To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say."
"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
"Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate."
"Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished."
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
"It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere."
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