All Quotes By Tag: Existence

“Philosophy loves it wild.”

“[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.”

“Yes: I exist inside my body.I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach.Indifferent?No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,A moment in the air that’s not for us,And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!(6/20/1919)”

“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.”

“If science wants to be truthful,What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?I close my eyes and the hard earth where I’m lyingHas a reality so real even my back feels it.I don’t need reason — I have shoulderblades.”

“The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.”

“he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not even out of curiosity. There are things of which the soul refuses to lose its ignorance.I’m perfectly aware no one’s obliged to reciprocate love, and great poets have nothing to do with being great lovers. But there’s a transcendent spite…Let her remain anonymous even to God!”

“I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some part of it has strayed beyond its own borders; when it, the seeker, is at once the dark region through which it must go seeking, where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not so far exist, to which it alone can give reality and substance, which it alone can bring into the light of day.”

“True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.”

“I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholenessIs a sickness of our ideas.”

“The existence of God is a matter of feeling! It is not a formula of algebra that we sit down and prove! If we carefully observe the humans, animals, nature etc., then the existence of God can certainly be felt. Say, I mentioned in one of my Facebook posts that the 4 fingers of our hands are located side by side but one finger, that is, the thumb is much away from other fingers, structurally small and much different compared to other fingers. Now, it would be foolishness to say that the location of the thumb is such by coincidence. God knows it well that if all the fingers in the hands were of same size and structure, then it would be rather difficult or impossible for us to hold anything or do any work! So, He placed the thumb of our hands in the distance. It would be clearer if I explain it in a different way. As the parents become exceedingly cautious about the newly born baby, its spontaneous feeding, walking, talking etc. are carefully monitored by them, likewise, God has given the specific formation, shape and structure to the humans and all the animals by keeping their overall well-being, advantages and easiness in mind!”

“স্রষ্টার উপস্থিতি উপলব্ধি করার বিষয়। এটা বীজগণিতের কোনও সুত্র নয় যে অংক করতে বসলাম আর প্রমাণ করে ফেললাম! মানুষ, জীবজন্তু, প্রকৃতি ইত্যাদির প্রতি গভীর পর্যবেক্ষণ থাকলে অবশ্যই স্রষ্টার অস্তিত্ব অনুভব করা যায়। যেমন, আমার এক ফেইসবুক পোস্টে আমি উল্লেখ করেছিলাম যে মানুষের হাতের ৪টি আঙুল পাশাপাশি অবস্থান করছে ঠিকই কিন্তু একটি আঙুল মানে বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুল ঐ ৪টি আঙুল থেকে অনেকটা দূরে, আকৃতিগতভাবে ছোট এবং অন্য আঙুলগুলোর চেয়ে অনেকটাই আলাদা। এখন এটা বলা নির্বুদ্ধিতাই হবে যে বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুলের অবস্থান কাকতালীয়ভাবেই এমন। সৃষ্টিকর্তা ভালো করেই জানেন এবং বোঝেন যে হাতের সব আঙুল একই আকৃতির ও গঠনের হলে আমাদের কোনও কিছু ধরতে বা কোনও কাজ করতে অনেক কঠিন বা রীতিমত অসম্ভব হবে! তাই তিনি আমাদের হাতের বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুলটিকে অন্য ৪টি আঙুল থেকে একটু দূরে রেখেছেন! একটু অন্যভাবে ব্যাখ্যা দিলে বিষয়টি আরও পরিস্কার হবে। শিশুর জন্মের পর পিতামাতা যেমন তার সুস্থতার প্রতি ভীষণভাবে মনোযোগী হন, সে যাতে তার খাওয়া-দাওয়া, হাঁটাচলা, কথা বলা ইত্যাদি কোনোরকম ঝামেলা ছাড়াই স্বতঃস্ফূর্তভাবে করতে পারে সে ব্যাপারে সচেষ্ট হন, স্রষ্টাও তেমনি মানুষ তথা সমগ্র প্রাণীকুলের সার্বিক সুস্থতা, সুবিধা এবং স্বাভাবিকতার কথা ভেবেই তাদেরকে নির্দিষ্ট আকার, আকৃতি ও গঠন প্রদান করেছেন!”

“Only assertions that we can verify make sense. A sentence such as “God is here” cannot be verified because we cannot prove God’s existence by empirical means. Hence this sentence is senseless.”

“Siz bu dünyaya mutlu olmak için geldiniz. Sevmek için, haz almak için, sevginizi paylaşmak için geldiniz. Bunlar sizin yaşam hakkınız. Şu anda yaşıyorsunuz. Bu haklarınızı kullanın ve yaşamdan zevk alın. İçinizden akıp geçen yaşama tepki duymayın. Çünkü içinizden akıp geçen yaşam Tanrıdır. Sizin varlığınız Tanrının varlığının kanıtıdır. Sizin varlığınız yaşamın ve enerjinin kanıtıdır.”

“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”