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Existence Quotes

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mirror Practice Eye Reason Existence

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Happy Political Country Existence

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.

Gwendoline Christie

Beauty Past World Existence Depth

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Reason Existence Things Only Pin

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

Art Effort Interesting Existence

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Love Love Is Problem Human Existence

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

John Gregory Dunne

Society Class Secret Existence About

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Spiritual Random Infinite Existence

As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.

Job Opinions Feelings Existence Out

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Age Existence Modern Justify

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

Women Community Science Existence

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

Me Know Everything Existence Sense

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

Life Think Existence Out Coming

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Chaos Reality Nothing Existence Pure

To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.

Stephen M. Walt

Face Say Existence Israel Threats

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

Aleksandar Hemon

Love Wait Care Everything Existence

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

Mathematics Navy Real Existence May

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

Humanity Powerful Existence Things

As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.

First Existence Coming Vital After

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Work God Possible More Existence Us

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Rufus Wainwright

Good Gold Existence Out Anything

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

People Me Long Others Existence

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

God Government Believe Existence Who

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

James C. Maxwell

Small Results More Existence May

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