Quotes about Existence

When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.

If we can accept a single singularity of the Big Bang, on what basis can we reasonably claim no other such singularities are possible?

Religion was a dead, man-made thing, and at the heart of Christianity was something else entirely—God himself, alive.

Even if you were to knock my head off, God would still exist.

Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration towards truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot imagine a scientist without that profound faith.

Human beings were taken from the earth and don't just consist of thin air and thoughts.

I would rather believe God doesn't exist than believe he doesn't care.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism,Christianity would not exist

Man is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.