Existence Quotes - Page 40

• To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Years, Giving

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.42, Basic Books

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• He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they'd tell you they'd always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you'd tell them, What? I didn't even think you liked me? and they'd say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say!

  Cecelia Ahern

  Crush, Crazy, Thinking

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• When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.

  Adolf Hitler

  Iron, People, Principles

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• Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Civilization, America

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• Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

  William James

  Heart, Science, Doe

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.18, 谷月社

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• Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

  Albert Camus

  Trying, Absurd, Humans

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• Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Hegel, Truth Is, Reason

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• Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

  John Dewey

  Education, Communication, Mean

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Philosophical, Mean, Reality

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.

  Jo Nesbo

  Religious, Stars, Believe

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• The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

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• Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Differences, Water, Looks

  Anthony Horowitz (2011). “The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk... Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is...the existence of me!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Risk, Weakness, Done

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• The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.

  John Stuart Mill

  Science, Events, Causes

  John Stuart Mill (1846). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.337

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• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Technology, People

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Space, Light

  Diana Gabaldon (1991). “Outlander”, New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada

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• For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Who I Am, Long, Wake Up

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

  Judith McNaught

  Happens

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Once and Always”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to beat, but the heart exists and even beats before the blood reddens.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Science, Blood

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• You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Thinking, Ongoing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Elephant Vanishes”, p.220, Random House

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• Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Painful, Pops

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.432, Delacorte Press

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• Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

  Charlaine Harris

  Mistake, Long, Perfect

  "Deadlocked". Book by Charlaine Harris, May 1, 2012.

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• A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

  Keri Hulme

  Heart, Gone Away, Dysfunctional Family

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.242, LSU Press

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• The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

  George Orwell

  Art, Book, Literature

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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