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Existence Quotes (page 69)

Swami Vivekananda quote: "The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of..."
The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. Swami Vivekananda
Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory alone, the flowers that people show me nowadays for the first time never seem to me to be true flowers. Marcel Proust
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all,..."
The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Anne Rice quote: "The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because..."
The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them. Anne Rice
And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy. Philip K. Dick
Bertrand Russell quote: "Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence..."
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity. Bertrand Russell
Jodi Picoult quote: "Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase..."
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie. Jodi Picoult
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright Bill Bryson
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence George Orwell
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence. Alexander Dumas
A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be. Christopher Isherwood
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.' 'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. [...] 'Indeed.' 'Does it work? Are they happier dead?' 'Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. Neil Gaiman
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own. Sigmund Freud
He plunged his arms deep to embrace One who vanished in agitated water. Again and again he kissed The lips that seemed to be rising to kiss his But dissolved, as he touched them, Into a soft splash and a shiver of ripples. How could he clasp and caress his own reflection? And still he could not comprehend What the deception was, what the delusion. He simply became more excited by it. Poor misguided boy! Why clutch so vainly At such a brittle figment? What you hope To lay hold of has no... Ovid

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