Quotes about Existence
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.
- Ayn Rand
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
- CS Lewis
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
- John Tillotson
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
- Samuel Johnson
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
- Victor Hugo
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
- Albert Camus
Men die and they are not happy.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
- Alexander Hamilton
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
- Aristotle
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
- Elie Wiesel
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
- Elie Wiesel