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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows read more

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

by Emile Durkheim Found in: Existence Quotes,
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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

by D. H. Lawrence Found in: Existence Quotes,
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness read more

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not

by Rabindranath Tagore Found in: Existence Quotes,
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve

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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

by St. Basil Found in: Existence Quotes,
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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, read more

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

by Henry Miller Found in: Existence Quotes,
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First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

by Zen Aphorism Found in: Existence Quotes,
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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to read more

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

by E. T. Bell Found in: Existence Quotes,
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