“I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.” LifeSaidExistencePaidThey SaidDraught Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going to win [a Golden Globe] and when she got home she put [the trophy] in his bedroom. So when he woke up, he was like “Yes I did it, I did it”. He was so excited, he felt like he had somehow engendered the trophy into existence, which is so cute.” SaidHomeWinningFeltPrayerSleepExistenceSonExcitedGoldenCuteGlobesBedroomTrophiesAmyReally CuteCute Things Author:Michael Schur
“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.” HumansSaidBookHappensPainLife IsSpiritSocialEnjoyPleasureInterestingExistencePeriodsThings HappenObligationDullDistinctionHuman SpiritThrillingObligedSlumberPain And PleasureCocoonsInsincereSocial Obligation Author:E. M. Forster
“It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.” ThinkingWorldSaidWould BeHeavenExistenceSixConsequenceSimplicity Author:Philo
“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.” WantMadeSaidEndsRealityCareAsksFoundDecisionDealsExistenceCompanyCarCostResourcesDoctorsAskingSafetyTradeSavedMade ItFeaturesHeroicFiniteEnd Of LifeExplicitTrade OffsMemos Author:Bill Gates
“A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!” WellsSaidResultsExistenceConditionsProducePhilosopherQuantum Author:Richard P. Feynman
“In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."” NeedsLongDoeSaidHoursExistenceAtheismPositive AtheismProofDiscussionTheologicalExistence Of GodRabbiSeminars Author:Victor Frederick Weisskopf