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Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

George Stigler

Chicago

Existence

Theory

Yield

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens

Existence

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

Goldwin Smith

Existence

May

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.