Quotes about Existence
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
- Paul Ricoeur
To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.
- Paulo Coelho
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
- Oscar Wilde
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
- Henry David Thoreau
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.
- Henry Ford
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
- Henry Ward Beecher