#existence

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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I always reason from existence, not toward existence, whether I move in the sphere of palpable sensible fact or in the realm

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To ask whether a formal concept exists is nonsensical. For no proposition can be the answer to such a question.

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I sit here between heaven and earth as a little stone or a little tree sits on a huge mountain. Since I can see my

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All things are an exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods for gold and gold for goods.

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In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

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Like our ancestors, we stand still with fright and perplexity before ugliness, disease, misery, senility, death. All that

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In perennial nonbeing you see mystery, and in perennial being you see appearance. Though the two are one and the same, once

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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and

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Everything that comes to be has some beginning, but what is eternal, being ungenerated did not have a beginning. But if it

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The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

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Whatever one may do, one never realizes anything but a limited work, like existence itself which tries to establish

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What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

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We must recognise the fact that mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity, that absurdity is an element in

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The trivialities natural to life, the insignificancies of the normal and vulgar, lie like a layer of dust, tracing a blurred,...

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.

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Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start

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What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know

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No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until

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Grammar, in defining usage, makes divisions which are sometimes legitimate, sometimes false. For example, it divides verbs

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Where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas

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Only when we are able to attribute a real meaning to the world and to life shall we be able to give ourselves to such action

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