Best my-own & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.”

World Soul Self Whole Feelings Fall My Own Existence Cases Elements Circles Whole World Sensations Surround Peculiar Spheres My Thoughts Opaque

Author:F. H. Bradley

“I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.”

Made My Own Existence

Author:Bede Griffiths

“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”

Men I Can America My Own Existence Land Mountain Appreciate Native Native Land

Author:Martin Delany

“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”

World May Doe Ideas Matter Enough Earth Beautiful Life Is Wish My Own Existence Return No Matter What Mere Surface Justify Gestures Fabric Sentimental

Author:Frank O'Hara

“Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.”

People Thinking World Way Firsts Dies Individual Born My Own Behinds Existence Millions Groups Members Breaths Really True Live Simply My Own World

Book:Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

“I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.”

Facts My Own Existence Accepting Guilt Refuse

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.”

Made My Own Existence Saws Seeking Centre Seeking God

Author:Bede Griffiths

“I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.”

People Ifs World Heart Whole Found My Own Existence Progress Creation Judging Theory Judgment Understood Intellect I Realized Justify Rationality

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.”

I Can Body Lasts Lines My Own Existence Sun Fronts Arms Shadow Stones Wings Warm Staring Rays Far Away Locks Spinning

Author:Dean Potter

“I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.”

Feels Wells Might My Own Existence Doubt

Book:Berkeley: Philosophical Writings

Source: Berkeley: Philosophical Writings

“How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?”

Thinking Knows Ideas My Own Existence Consciousness Principles Perception Conscious Active Perceive Repeats

Book:Works: Account of His Life and Letters

Source: Works: Account of His Life and Letters

“New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.”

Knows World Persons Care Desire Individual Felt My Own Existence Destiny Millions New York Strange Concerned Ignorant Hopeful Insignificant Mold Unimportant Strange World

Book:Daughter of Earth

Source: Daughter of Earth

“I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.”

Imagination My Own Existence Permit Belly Bowels Figments

Author:Mason Cooley

“Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.”

Humans Whole Mother Dies My Own Space Levels Existence Intellectual Convinced Mysterious Explanation Human Existence Clusters

Author:A. N. Wilson

“I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.”

Way Feels I Can Enough Father My Own Existence Narcissistic Narcissist Explosives

Author:Marc Maron

“This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.”

Christian Joy Religion My Own Existence Atheism Divine Bites Howl Exaltation

Author:John Adams

“This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.”

Wells Feelings My Own Existence Needed Harmony Well Being Contentment

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .”

People Ifs Should Trying Kind Would Be Wanted My Own Existence Impossible Republican Decades Flying Shakes Resolve Flags Patriot Unjust Endeavour Yoke Lethargy

Author:James Stephens

“I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.”

Knows Believe Play I Believe Born My Own Existence Consciousness Quality Creativity Constant Spontaneity

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

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