#existence

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that. ↗

— Julian Sands

#existence #five #go #human #human existence

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ↗

— George Santayana

#effort #eternal #existence #interesting #keep

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. ↗

— George Santayana

#any #anywhere #evil #existence #optimism

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#him #less #man #more #mysterious

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#deaths #existence #feel #friends #look

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#beholds #does #existence #granted #his

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence? ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#element #existence #important #important element #most