Top Existence Quotes
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
Qin Shi Huangdi
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis
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The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.
John Boehner 
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So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
David Cronenberg
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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
William Ames
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I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
Adolf Galland
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Gao Xingjian
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
Paul Ricoeur
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. Ambedkar
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