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Letter "E" » Existence
«There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.»
Author: Heinz R. Pagels
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
Before and After, emptiness, here and there, plenum, sprang, The Void, void
«To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Existence,
Maturity
| Keywords:
creating, endlessly, mature
«The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Existence,
Freedom,
Rebellion
| Keywords:
absolutely, Absolutely Free, Act of, deal, existence, Free World, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion, to become, unfree
«The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.»
«The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes»
«The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Existence,
Goals,
Opinions,
People
| Keywords:
About us, appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, glowing, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling
«The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Existence,
Science,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Arts and, Arts and Sciences, deliverance, handicraft, handicrafts
«The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
bore, human existence, in line
«The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Existence,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictions, outweigh, outweighing, outweighs, potentiality
«The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ»
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