Existence Quotes

"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 approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."
-Oscar Wilde

"There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth."
-Heinz R. Pagels

"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."
-Aristotle

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

"Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow."
-T. S. Eliot

"Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence."
-Storm Jameson

"There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence."
-Albert Camus

"May my soul bloom in love for all existence."
-Rudolf Steiner

"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."
-Uta Hagen

"There was nothing in existence when they started working on their application."
-Randy Dehoff

"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle."
-Frederick Buechner

"I cannot confirm or deny the existence of an investigation into any matter that may have come to our attention."
-Bud Cummins

"You can confine him to a miserable existence until he dies."
-Gerald Zerkin

"PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation."
-Ambrose Bierce

"Affordable housing transcends our ability to zone it into existence."
-Don Charles

"This leave has been in existence for as long as I can remember. This is not anything new."
-Rick Costa

"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."
-Marc Forne Molne

"When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence, applaud yourself!"
-Rusty Berkus

"By and large, they offer something that is already in existence for free."
-Vicky Taylor

"The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings."
-George louis Leclerc De Buffon

"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."
-Robert Anton Wilson

"The cavities and shock will dissipate, leaving behind very little trace of their existence."
-Paul Nulsen

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less."
-Norman Mailer

"We're not going to make it enjoyable to lose around here. It's going to be a miserable existence."
-Mike Sanford

"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."
-Anatole France

"Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria."
-David Lodge