Existence Doubt Quotes

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they may have; there are many reasons why knowledge on this subject is not possible, owing to the lack of evidence and the shortness of human life.

... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.