Existential Dependence Quotes

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

It's weird: I always feel like my career is about to end. Like someone is coming to get me. I don't know. I guess I need to find a better balance, but without my work, I don't think I would be alive. If I don't work, I don't live.

In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes of actuality; and its existence as you know it in your universe is determined by and dependent upon its existence within other fields, of which man is still intellectually ignorant.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.

The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?

We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.

Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.

Without music I should wish to die.

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.