existence Quotes

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not... ...

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without... ...

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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

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