Existence Quotes

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

~ Naveen Jain

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

~ Émile Zola

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

~ David Mccallum

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.

~ Denis Mcdonough

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

~ Paul Tillich

The police are the public and the public are the police the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

~ Robert Peel

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

~ Adrienne Rich

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

~ Isaac Newton

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

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

~ Milan Kundera

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

~ John Burnside

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

~ Herbert Read

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

~ John Updike

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

~ Joyce Meyer

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

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

~ Mason Cooley

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

~ Lord Byron

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

~ Ambrose Bierce

No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.

~ Lynn Coady

When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.

~ Mother Angelica

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

~ Nam June Paik

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

~ Hans Adolf Krebs

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

~ Shirley Maclaine

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

~ Louis Althusser

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

~ Stephen Harper

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

~ Susan Sontag