Quotes about Existence

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

And it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Apart from a thin film of life at the very surface of the Earth, an occasional intrepid spacecraft, and some radio static, our impact on the Universe is nil. It knows nothing of us.

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed. Sometimes it seems a very slender hope.

Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking about when we say God, then no one can possibly be an atheist, or at least anyone who would profess atheism would have to give a coherent argument about why the laws of nature are inapplicable. I think he or she would be hard-pressed. So with this latter definition of God, we all believe in God.

Things had been falling down since the beginning of time.

Geometry existed before the Creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ Geometry is God Himself." In