Quotes about Existence

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be.

He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

That in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.

Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith; for only in infinite resignation does my eternal validity become transparent to me, and only then can there be talk of grasping existence on the strength of faith.

The only object of liberty is life.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.