#existence

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution. ↗

— Michael Newdow

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. ↗

— William Hurt

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I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. ↗

— King Hussein I

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There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does. ↗

— John Green

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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. ↗

— William Ames

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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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