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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

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Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at ...

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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling ...

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I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should al...

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C. S. LewisThe Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't eve...

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When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There ...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

We make our purpose.

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no ot...

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He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He ...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

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Jean-Paul SartreBeing and Nothingness

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is onl...

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If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. A...

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Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your under...

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Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often b...

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Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; C...

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About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

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Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matt...

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Clarice LispectorThe Passion According to G.H.

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of ...

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His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and...

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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something ...

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The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its ho...

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Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

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I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

You don’t know what it’s like to be a man over thirty who’s never had anything happen to him. You sp...

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Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-...

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You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or ...

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The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots...

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Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corp...

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So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——...

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...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition...

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By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention c...

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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where wer...

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If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could ...

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As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

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It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to...

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Dmitri MendeleevMendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the dai...

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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarke...

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It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their ex...

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Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangib...

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

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Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moro...

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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even gr...

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Erich FrommEscape from Freedom

Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself; he has awareness of himself, of his fel...

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What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit mor...

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It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philos...

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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his...

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There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I fe...

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To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within mys...

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To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or real...

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The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obvio...

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or th...

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future...

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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

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Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude

The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain giv...

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...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;...

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What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolat...

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At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless ex...

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Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple ...

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I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal...

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not s...

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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

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It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

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H. P. LovecraftCollected Essays 5: Philosophy

Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of exist...

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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. A...

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It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and re...

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Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. It...

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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to los...

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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no...

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Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know w...

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If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to p...

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The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating...

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One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no on...

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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of...

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The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothin...

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The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This...

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Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

I understand, all right. The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking momen...

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