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“But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame. The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence, but the realization that there is no riddle. This is the essence of the beautiful, almost Zen Buddhist closing sentences of the Tracticus: "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist."”

Source: Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes

“Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.”

Existence Findings Determination Bounds Craving

Author:Je Tsongkhapa

“It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?”

Looks Doe Has Beens Soul Facts Feelings Eye Existence Findings Illusion Understood Lonely Essence Aim Mates Soul Mate

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.”

World States Difficult Existence Findings Virtuous Homosexuality Homophobia Colony Bisexuality Leper Dealing With It Admonition Pariahs Incorrigible

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.”

Real Reality Goal Existence Attention Magic Findings Pay Attention Tragic Consolation Compensation Demonstrating

Author:Peter Blegvad

“A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.”

Men Should Trying Littles Existence Doubt Feet Fit Findings Shoes Foolish

Author:James Boswell

“Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.”

People Way Names Existence Findings Patterns Conjuring

Book:They have a word for it: a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases

Source: They have a word for it: a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases

“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.”

Ifs Persons Lasts Individual Existence Responsibility Failing Findings Self Improvement Responsible Analysis Persist Shifting Personal Responsibility Individual Responsibility

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

“First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?”

Source: No Man Is an Island

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

Humans Lying Existence Alive Mystery Findings Staying Human Existence Criminal Mind Staying Alive Live With Purpose

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov