Best ends & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.”

Wells Ends Hands Imagination Existence Moral Mankind Position Behavior Majors Foundation Complexes Atheist Permanent Hunts Deities Theism Theist Pretender Moral Behavior Napoleon Complex

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.”

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Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.”

“Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.”

Life Long Ends Life Is Lying Existence Sigh

Book:Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.”

Ends Seems Existence Consciousness Vision Essentials Graves Cease

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".”

Ends Would Be Justice Existence Equal Doctrine Being True Inequality Poison Venomous Justice Equality True Justice

Book:Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.”

Men World Doe Ends Whole Christ Existence Wonderful Mystery Difficulty Accepted Whole World Explanation Grants Rejected Enigma

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities”

Men Mind Soul Ends Spiritual Purpose Passion Effort Existence Quality Comfort Tests Instinct Gratification Acquisition

Author:David O. McKay

“Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.”

Years Ends Lying Purpose Existence Proud Office Financial Statements Genes Irrelevant Reminders Irritating Biologist Propagation Year End Financial Statements

Author:Alain de Botton

“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.”

Source: Carlyle Reader

“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.”

“The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.”

Knows Ends Desire Existence Understood Intellect Practicals Conformity

Author:Jacques Maritain

“The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.”

Humans Ends Existence Sacrifice Morality Laughter Criticism Dancing Property Definitions Following Rejection Consideration Justify Celebration Human Existence Subordination Unmotivated

Author:Georges Bataille

“It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom, but we are unable to understand many of the ways of His Wisdom in His works. On this principle the whole Law of Moses is based; it begins with this principle: "And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good" (Gen. i. 31); and it ends with this principle: "The Rock, perfect is His work" (Deut. xxxii. 4). Note it.”

Way Made Ends Whole Law Perfect Results Existence Principles Saws Rocks Assuming Notes Very Good Moses Unreasonable Non Existence

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.”

World Humans Ends Philosophy Use Hands Purpose Existence Wonder Solutions Philosophical Theology Remove Affirmation Human Existence Contingency

Book:In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

“Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.”

Want Made Said Ends Reality Care Asks Found Decision Deals Existence Company Car Cost Resources Doctors Asking Safety Trade Saved Made It Features Heroic Finite End Of Life Explicit Trade Offs Memos

Author:Bill Gates

“Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.”

Ends States Existence Awareness Materialism Subjective Qualitative

Author:John Searle

“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.”

World Soul Ends States Lasts Turns Secret Existence This World Tears Eternal Seasons Crisis Disappear Transition Phases Torment Passing Away

Book:How It All Began: The Prison Novel

Source: How It All Began: The Prison Novel

“Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.”

Littles Ends Existence Directors Eternity Boring Boredom

Author:Woody Allen

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