I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing
Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.
I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.
Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs
Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.
Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens. . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.
Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.