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“At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Death Choices Existence Dying Birth Meaningless Death And Dying Distaste

Author:Jean-Pierre Melville

“Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.”

Made States Moments Lying Choices Existence Our Lives Quantum Awakened Choices Made

Book:The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy

Source: The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy

“To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive step which causes being to pass to existence in a movement which is constantly surpassed.”

Choices Causes Existence Steps Movement Constructive

Book:The Ethics of Ambiguity

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.”

World Ideas Reason Choices Universe Found Existence Degrees Perfection Claims Determine Sufficient Proportion Infinity

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.”

Doe Moments Choices Existence Gains Tasks Resignation Great Moments Impassioned Proficiency

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.”

People Men Sometimes Choices Understanding Existence Rich Cold Higher Environmental Spread Esteem Sustainability Conservation Stopping Cranes Wild Places

Author:Thomas Lovejoy

“My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.”

Reason Choices Existence Morality Axioms

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.”

Values Choices Existence Leader Share Mines Institutions Instruments Library Core Persuasion Irrelevant Saddam Hussein Evangelism Attorney Core Values

Author:Robert Hughes