existence Quotes

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot... ...

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

The actuality of thought is life.

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the... ...

It's fair to ask if time would exist if there were no soul; because if there's no one to count, there can be nothing counted, so there clearly can't be number; for number is either what has been counted or... ...

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.