being Quotes

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Happiness is activity.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.