(1472 quotes found)
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
Aristotle
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“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
“I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility”
Maya Angelou
“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
Gao Xingjian
“The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”
Voltaire
“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to”
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