Existence - Quotes
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.
If the failure of proof of nonexistence is taken as proof of existence, then we must conclude that all exist.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
The Only Proff he needed
for the existence of God
was music
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other good things in the world.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.