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

George Bernard Shaw

Existence

Pain

Years

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

John Searle

Existence

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Existence

Man

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Art

Existence

State

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence

Rules

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau