Independent Existence Quotes

In this game, you're on your own. You either sink or swim.

The poetic image exists apart from causality.

The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.

Giving married women an independent legal existence did not destroy heterosexual marriage. And allowing husbands and wives to construct their marriages around reciprocal duties and negotiated roles - where a wife can choose to be the main breadwinner and a husband can stay home with the children - was an immense boon to many couples.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists interdependently with each other.

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking

In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.