Existence Quotes

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

The Turkish Nation consists of the valiant descendants of a people that has lived independently and has considered independence the sole condition of existence.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.

The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

But to show you my heart fully, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear to be not a god! Therefore, there are no gods.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

This - is now my way, - where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me 'the way.' For the way - it doth not exist!

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

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.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

This freedom and heavenly cheer I have placed over all things like an azure bell when I taught that over them and through them no 'eternal will' wills. This prankish folly I have put in the place of that will when I taught: In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

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

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Human existence basically is - a never to be completed imperfect tense.