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“A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.”

Men Character Would Be Existence Materials Circumstances Creatures Mark One Man Architect Bricks Palaces Warehouse Mortar Villa Bricks And Mortar

Book:The Works of Goethe

Source: The Works of Goethe

“How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?”

Giving Humans Action Process Existence Creatures Accounts Who We Are Interaction Our Actions Human Existence Transactions Praxis

Author:R. D. Laing

“Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.”

Believe Children Sometimes Names Poor Existence Creatures Charity Seven Thee Strings Distress Assistance Purses Small Child Unwelcome Bowels Rakes

Book:The Essays of Elia

Source: The Essays of Elia

“You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.”

Has Beens Individual Perfect Animal Existence Creation Creatures Goodness Mercy Species Proof Treated Proportion Faculty Mercy Of God

Author:Maimonides

“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”

Knows Life Is Social Existence Consciousness Economy Focus Produce Materials Creatures Conscious Historical Productions Criteria Social Life Living Creatures Evaluation

Author:Moses Hess

“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.”

“The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.”

Feels Humans Enough Existence Creatures Photography Transformation Cameras Narrative Chronicles

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.”

Long Ends God Humanity Heaven Water Lines Existence Forever Goes On Creatures Essentials Chosen Plague God Exists

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.”

Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

“Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature.”

Christ Animal Common Existence Share Creatures Angel All Things Stones Embrace Plant Sensations Transformed Fullness

Author:Bonaventure

“Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.”

Different Form Existence Creatures Living Creatures

Book:Man's Place in Nature

Source: Man's Place in Nature

“In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.”

Passion Fear Existence Creatures Proportion Sensations Ruling Agonizing Ruling Passion

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.”

“Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.”

Knows Men Felt Dark Rooms Existence Darkness Sun Bears Creatures Witness Egypt Dark Room Kodak

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.”

Reality Existence Influence Creatures Perceive Living Creatures

Author:Robert Lanza

“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.”

Reason Faces Purpose Dies Born Existence Emotional Creatures Cures Uncertainty Excess Helplessness Transcendent Insignificance Hopes And Fears

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.”

Hands Reading Sleep Existence Creatures Lays Chairs Basking

Book:To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.”

Needs Made Interest Pleasure Existence Divine Creatures Relation Creator Arise Sovereign Completeness Incompleteness Creator God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.”

Earth Pain Stars Pleasure Existence Planets Creatures Filled Profound Scripts Conclusion Arrogant Disgusting Disgruntled Inflicting Pain

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.”

Men World May Littles Made Said Seems Earth Lasts Dark Existence Knowing Rocks Creation Creatures Forests Naked Smallest Entity Consent Crumbs

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.”

Certain Given Perfect Existence Player Creation Strange Periods Pure Creatures Abstraction Short Lived Continuance

Author:Yukio Mishima

“I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too.”

Source: Eclipse

“I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.”

World Beautiful Wish Hurt Poor Existence Creatures Glory Ordinary Miracle Hungry Presenting Groaning Beautiful World

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd”

Trying Humans Existence Creatures Absurd Convince

Author:Albert Camus

“It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.”

Ifs Believe Long Made Soul Feelings Body Light Stars Religious Existence Gone Saws One Thing Missing Creatures Absence Owners Flats Void Burned Demise Illusory Burned Out Bereft Afterglow

Author:Jo Nesbo