"Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence."
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"Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd"
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"Atheists say no one can prove the existence of God but I say no one can disprove that God exists I see God in everything I feel his presence everywhere to me I know that he exists."
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"Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence."
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"Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence."
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"The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it."
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"I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being."
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"The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself."
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"We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world."
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"Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence."
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"Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world."
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"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing."
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"No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself."
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"For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not."
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"Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it."
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"Every life is its own excuse for being."
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"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."
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"It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions."
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"When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence"
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"If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?"
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