Being Quotes

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only ...

Leadership does not depend on being right.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at th...

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-bei...

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtfu...

I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in ...

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It i...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there ar...

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a quest...

My health and my family are the core of my being.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, whic...

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his ...

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stoneMan is not to rule o...

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.Rely on your own body for transportation...

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our har...

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no...

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronolog...

A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the ot...

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing ...

If we do not know the character of being itself - I have never seen anyone suggest that we do know i...

Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to...

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independe...

Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every ...

Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological pr...

On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has bee...

The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of...

Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the sa...

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in t...

But what is great can only begin great.

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creatur...

When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was a bridegroom, tak...

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share ...

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but t...

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian fai...

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even thos...

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.But bei...

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betr...

He who stops being better stops being good.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been...

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole...

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thin...

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results no...

I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it posses...

In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically desc...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of openin...

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an exc...

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involve...

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, ...

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporati...

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

I love, therefore I am.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I experience reality as a system of power. Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, Rome on a holiday, ...

So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, ...

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make...

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

I love being not cool.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.