Self-existence Quotes

Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

The aim of living is life itself.

This god, this one word: I.

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.