existence Quotes

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Man - a being in search of meaning.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

We are a very, very unusual species.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.