Quotes about Existence

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes.

If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.