Existence Quotes

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

Vanna Bonta


Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson


The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin


Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan


Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson


I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya Angelou


If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis


When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy


The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus


If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan


No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle


Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle


From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich Nietzsche


The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche