#existence

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#bourgeois #existence #profession #want #wrong

I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#john-steinbeck #reality #reason #science #the-winter-of-our-discontent

MAGNITUDE of EXISTENCE U are a dot A point A speck An image A stillness A shadow A centrifugal force Turning into itself Emanating heat Emanating light You are a transient warmth Wave like u exist Resonating properties As body As mind As heart As human You are One dot in trillions exponentially Sifting through motion Expressed as e=motion You are engulfed in water From the inside out Wrapped in the Arms of giver of air Held ephemerally by the heart of sky In suspended attraction to the wooing of earth You are reflecting ash taken to travel Bathing in sun rays Resting as moonlight You are a resonant echo Given to name matter Bouncing dot like You are a distance timber Specified to forms A mountain A valley A hill A meadow A dune A desert Exacting measure You Are A magnitude of existences © Olivia Chumacero ↗

— Olivia Chumacero

#nature-s-grandeur #nature

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#birth #born #caught #deals #even

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#any #continental #could #existence #male

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#chain #different #different person #early #exception

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#almost #become #been #cause #delusion

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. ↗

— Maimonides

#almighty #both #comparison #existence #greatness

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#existence #fellow #fellow man #greater #greater understanding

All the time I feel I must justify my existence. ↗

— Prince Charles

#feel #i #i feel #justify #must