Quotes about Existence

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Man's Place in Nature.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

We are all star stuff.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?