#existence

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. ↗

— Maimonides

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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#acknowledge #automatic #being #doors #enough

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents. ↗

— Ernst Haeckel

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Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#aspire #beings #biologists #birds #broader

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. ↗

— James Joyce

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My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

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The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence. ↗

— Meir Kahane

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The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#empires #existence #heart #indeed #jewish

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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