Existential Certainty Quotes

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

I am this space my body believes in.

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.