(1452 quotes found)
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
Aristotle
“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”
Abraham Lincoln
“To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'”
Lao Tzu
“The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence”
“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?”
Woody Allen
“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
Gao Xingjian
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
Buddha