| "It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream." »Edgar Allan Poe |
| "It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle." »Frederick Buechner |
| "As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "The education of the will is the object of our existence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "existence precedes and rules essence." »Jean-Paul Sartre |
| "The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less." »Norman Mailer |
| "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa |
| "Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence." »Franoise Mallet-Joris |
| "It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence." »James Waddell Alexander, II |
| "The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person." »Vi Putnam |
| "The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence." »Sue Atchley Ebaugh |
| "God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles." »John Tyndall |
| "When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them" »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "In past people never questioned existence of god, because they knew he exists. In future too they will not, because they will know he doesn't." »B. J. Gupta |
| "Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence." »Elihu Burritt |
| "As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." »George Santayana |
| "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." »Sydney Smith |
| "I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit." »Norman Mailer |
| "Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves." »Herbert W. Boyer |
| "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." »Carl Jung |
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