#existence

Everything but a life can be replaced. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#importance-of-existence #life #death

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#career #existence #how #image #know

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence. ↗

— John Searle

#call #exist #existence #let us #must

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. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#anomaly #apparent #corps #existence #interest

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed. ↗

— James Newman

#could #even #ever #existed #existence

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#body #continue #entities #existence #hold

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#disagree #evil #existence #genuine #himself

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence. ↗

— Andrei Tarkovsky

#existence #faith #hope #art

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences. ↗

— Jonathan Sacks

#inspirational #tolerance #faith

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#existence #leonardo-da-vinci #life #matteo #post-mortem