Best existence & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.”

Problem Existence Grew Adversity Constant Problem Solving Ingenious

Book:A Place Called Saturday

Source: A Place Called Saturday

“I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.”

Thinking Needs Problem Community Business Existence Middle Trade Profit Shops Immoral

Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.”

Problem Energy Existence Worry Waste Negative Negative Thoughts

Author:Bruce Lee

“We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.”

Thinking Knows Kind Children Ideas Problem Wish Parent Interest Existence Information Solutions Access Censorship Upbringing

Author:Judith Krug

“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”

Heart Enough Facts Problem Existence Darkness Struggle Conditions Lays Species Adaptation Notorious Struggle For Existence Variability

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.”

Men World Children Said Problem Light Would Be Born Pleasure Existence Darkness Fire Wife Son Buddhism Ethics Guides Code Disgusting Weary Deserted Guide Me Light Of The World

Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

“So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.”

Ifs Long Helping Problem Suffering Order Space Existence Comfort Remains Meaningful Servant Torture Sentient Beings

Author:Dalai Lama

“A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.”

Knows Way Want Feels Book Problem Remember Reading Lost Difficult Answers Existence Know How Written Confused Maps I Want You Difficult Times Lost And Confused

Author:Matt Haig

“But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.”

Made Problem Causes Existence Effects Nothingness Assistance Causation

Author:Anselm of Canterbury

“I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.”

Problem Faces Felt Ability Views Race Existence Doubt Concern Roots Fingers Affection Point Of View Honestly Eloquent Deep Affection

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.”

Ifs Self Problem Existence Depends Discovering True Self

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.”

Firsts Two Problem Found Simple Existence Determination Mathematics Crisis Circles Rational Mathematical Squares Domain Geometry Arithmetic Diagonal

Author:David van Dantzig

“Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques, and anything that might divert them from doing so is deemed unnecessary. Putting mathematics into its cultural context, explaining what is has done for humanity, telling the story of its historical development, or pointing out the wealth of unsolved problems or even the existence of topics that do not make it into school textbooks leaves less time to prepare for the exam. So most of these things aren't discussed.”

“Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.”

Problem Existence Influence Deny

Author:Bill Johnson

“Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Kind Long Problem Eye Individual Existence Known Accepting Fate Work Out Complexity Division Permission Navigate Multiplicity Unsure Open Eyes Actual Life

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.”

“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”

World Reason Problem Age Purpose Goal Existence Known Atheism Enlightenment Tradition Pursuit Rational Eras Merit Our World Discourse Submission Deities Premises Age Of Reason

Author:Jeffrey Tayler

“Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.”

Problem Culture Individual Ability Existence Creativity Expression Solutions Something New Solution To A Problem

Author:Betty Edwards

“The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any other problem of human existence. And it haunts the spiritual search as well.”

Way Humans Wells Whole Problem Spiritual Powerful Existence Steps Our Lives Dog Pressure Human Existence

Author:Jacob Needleman

“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."”

Humans Long Problem Suffering Love Is Existence Human Suffering Words Love

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature, and he does not know where he will arrive if he goes forward. Man's existential contradiction results in a state of constant disequilibrium. This disequilibrium distinguishes him from the animal, which lives, as it were, in harmony with nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Feels Doe States Problem Home Animal Results Existence Harmony Constant Solve Paradise Contradiction Existential Disequilibrium

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”

Thinking Kind Littles Two Ideas Real Problem Interest Emotion Existence Fiction Figures Painting Grew Shapes Sight All Kinds Preserves Colour Initials Vibrations

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.”

Men Trying Problem Animal Existence Stupid Solve Vain

Author:William C. Brown

“The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.”

Should Matter Problem Evil Existence Poverty Resources Crisis Accepted Priorities Emergencies Necessary Evil

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The big bang poses a problem for young-earth creationists because it makes the universe billions of years old rather than thousands. Such an assertion undercuts their system at its foundation. Big bang cosmology also presents a problem for atheistic scientists because it points directly to the existence of a transcendent Creator - a fact they dare not concede.”

“The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.”

“The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.”

Ifs Problem Existence Personality Ego Complexes Treated Dominant Intervention Constellations Tumors

Author:Terence McKenna

“As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.”

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