Quotes about Existence
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
- Aristotle
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
- Herman Melville
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
- Stephen Hawking
Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...
- Frederick Buechner
It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.
- Frederick Buechner
It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present.
- Frederick Buechner
Life without death has become as unthinkable to me as day without night or waking without sleep.
- Frederick Buechner