Existence Quotes

"To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."

"Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished"

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"There are in our existence spots of timeThat with distinct pre-eminence retainA renovating virtue, whence . . . our mindsAre nourished and invisibly repaired."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation."

"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 more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him"

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."

"Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him."

"Being is the great explainer."

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality"

"Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence."

"No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains."

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

"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"

"As long as it exists it points to the possible existence of clandestine Scuds. Maybe they didn't destroy the fuel because they've got some plan to (deploy) Scuds."

"The long-anticipated bubble has certainly not burst and is probably not in existence. It's a favorable outlook for the rest of the year."

"So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century."