#existence

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ↗

— James Bryce

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. ↗

— John le Carre

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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. ↗

— Jim Fowler

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