Best regard & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.”

Evil Existence Consciousness Regard Very Good Absurd Guts Hats Absurdity Non Existence

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”

Thinking Men May Self Motivation Fall Space Existence Perception Standards Regard Supreme Traps Equations Time And Space Inclination Self Centered Axioms Expediency

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.”

Ifs Way Should Firsts Wells Mean War Done Government Asks Existence Issues Involved Regard Property Conclusion Ask Me Bombs Owners Permission Compensation Monstrosity

Author:Leonard Peikoff

“It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey...An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.”

Firsts May Ends Government Age Order Sex Existence Taken Decided Paid Regard Criminals Genocide Turkeys Scruples Armenians Armenian Genocide

Author:Talaat Pasha

“There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.”

Kind May States Feelings Government Form Culture Individual Social Existence Pressure Regard Filled Threat Extremes Distinction Insecurity Endeavor Discouraging Menace Free Life

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.”

Animal Existence Cat Regard Wheels

Author:Andrew Lang

“Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.”

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Author:Christopher Morley

“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.”

Source: Works: ¬The Rambler

“One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearly that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is the simple existence of reliable contraception, which is a no brainer but I missed really addressing it in the book.”

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Author:Brad Warner

“I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for it, some person or group of people out there has demanded that these words come into being. I think that you do the work for these people. You hope that you can make a living at it. Whatever your ambitions and needs are in that regard, your only real requirement is to try and dig as deeply as you can dig to make sense of the meaning of human existence.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.”

Source: The Prophets

“Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.”

Source: Christianity and Liberalism

“There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.”

Reason Existence Regard Consideration No Reason Cents Probability Spectrum Immune

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person we love is not the same as loving her true self, for we are only apt to regard her physical beauty as the indispensable mode of her existence. When time and space intervene, it is possible to be deceived by both, but on the other hand, it is equally possible to draw twice as close to her real self.”

Thinking Persons Real Soul Self Enough Body Hands Space Love Is Existence Draws Regard Foolish Indispensable True Self Time And Space Deceived Real Self Physical Beauty

Author:Yukio Mishima

“The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.”

World Doe Science Memories Existence Perception Regard Mere Sensations Manifest Constructs Convenient

Book:What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

“I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.”

Source: The American Commonwealth

“Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.”

Source: The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.”

Mean Science Water Existence Millions Greater Sea Conditions Direct Pressure Regard Instruments Fishes Uniforms Measurement Apprehension Measuring Deep Sea

Book:Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space

Source: Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space

“To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.”

Men Needs Humans God Hands Lying Purpose Existence Brain Teaching Regard Salvation Longing Experiments Realization Desperate Executives Organs Sole Helpless Experimentation

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.”

Way Giving Humans House Race Existence Class Break Conditions Masters Revolution Weak Regard Silent Breaking Down Earthquakes Human Existence

Book:Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain

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