existence Quotes

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one... ...

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation... ...

To perceive is to suffer.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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

Nothing is what rocks dream about

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

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause... ...