(1470 quotes found)
“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
Aristotle
“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
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“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
“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
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Erich Fromm
“The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”
Voltaire
“Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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