#existence

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#existence

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#self #struggle

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#cynic #existence #suicide #cynicism

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula ↗

— Michael Ende

#inspirational #inspirational

That’s what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they’re gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with. ↗

— Jacob D. Lochner

#politics #sociology #sociology

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo) ↗

— Epicurus

#existence #life #death

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#even #existence #finally #forces #important

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. ↗

— George Berkeley

#being #created #dependency #existence #find

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ↗

— John Tyndall

#consecutive #existence #life #life is a #moments

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#condition #existence #life #mastery #nature