#existence

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#existence #finds #here #highest #justification

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#certain #dishonesty #endure #endures #everyday

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#buddy #children #create #crystallize #curtis

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

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

— George Santayana

#effort #eternal #existence #interesting #keep

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. ↗

— George Santayana

#any #anywhere #evil #existence #optimism

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#connection #existence #faults #misfortunes #mystery

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ↗

— Walter Scott

#crowded #decorum #either #existence #filled

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#because #come #enough #every #existence

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. ↗

— George Canning

#called #existence #i #into #new