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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Louis Leakey

America

Existence

Years

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

David Herbert Lawrence

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

R. D. Laing

Existence

Rules

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Milan Kundera

Existence

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

C. Everett Koop

Existence

Teaching

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

Donald Knuth