existence Quotes

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.