Being Quotes

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.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into be...

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of...

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every...

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I exist no more, every moment a new being lives inside me.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and rep...

His life coiled back into the brown murk of the past like a twined filament of electric wire; he gav...

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an ex...

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in ...

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, eac...

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...

Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappe...

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is con...

He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' ...

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that i...

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the...

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in ther...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.