Quotes about Existence
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
— Albert Einstein
Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
— Albert Einstein
Still there are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.
— Albert Einstein
No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life... no man can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful.
— Albert Einstein
WHAT is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
— Albert Einstein
Space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept empty space loses its meaning.
— Albert Einstein
Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!
— Albert Einstein
What I want to know is whether God had any choice in the creation of the universe.
— Albert Einstein
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
— Albert Einstein
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
— Aldous Huxley
He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly. 'Quite so…
— Aldous Huxley
Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
— Aldous Huxley