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When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.
Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.
The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.
Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
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.
We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.
For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.