Quotes about Existence

My dear, try to believe we exist when you aren't there. We're independent of you. None of us is like you fancy we are. Perhaps it wouldn't matter much if your thoughts were not so dark, always so dark.

At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.

What makes a human being human? When does a human being become a person? When does a human being cease to be a person? What is the significance of being human? Is there an inherent value with inherent rights that go along with being human? These

The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.

The very fact that what God creates is less than Himself introduces limitations and imperfections into the picture.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

God is not one more intelligible object among many, not a supreme existing thing among other existing things, not simply the highest value alongside other ethical goods. Rather, God is that which is intelligible in itself, that which exists through the power of its own essence, that which is good by its very nature.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.