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A building is alive, it is a living thing.
We are all part of a grand story.
God is not a being, he is a process.
From God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
To understand God, one must understand the drama of existence.
From God: A Biography by Jack Miles
We are all made of stardust; the universe is in us.
From The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean
The struggle to find meaning is a fundamental part of the human experience.
From Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels
He felt as if he were being dragged down into the abyss.
From The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
We are all a little bit cancerous.
I think we all have a role to play in this world.
From Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Humanity will transcend biology and transform into a new form of existence.
From The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Life cannot be separated from the places in which it occurs.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
From Dune by Frank Herbert
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
We are just a tiny speck in the vastness of everything.
Humans and machines must learn to coexist rather than compete.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
From The Art of Living by Epictetus
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
From The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Faith is an essential part of what it means to be human.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
The struggle for existence is the most important factor in the evolution of species.
From The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The body is a manifestation of the present moment.
From The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Death is the ultimate in the experience of living.
From The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
I think, therefore I am.
Life is a series of accidents.
It is the struggle for existence that drives evolution.
From The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
We are not mere spectators of our lives.
From The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
The unexamined life is not worth living.
From The Republic by Plato
The past is not dead; it is not even past.
The trail of the human serpent is over everything.
Time is not a mere sequence of moments.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Every human being is a part of the universe.
From The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
To understand the universe, we must understand ourselves.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The new physics reveals a universe that is alive and conscious.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Myth is much more than a story; it is a truth that we live by.
From The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The human body is a fragile vessel.
The soul is a strange loop.
The world is my representation.
From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
The existence of consciousness is undeniable.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
The pursuit of truth is an essential part of the human experience.
From Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller
Musical notes are vibrations that resonate with our very being.
From The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox
Most men would rather die than think. Many do.
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.
From The Stranger by Albert Camus
The question of Being is the most fundamental question.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
To be is to be related.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
From The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The only thing that we can do is to keep on living.
In the end, the only thing that matters is that you have lived your life fully.
From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The silence of a world without humans would be both haunting and liberating.
From The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Some elements are more than just chemistry; they are part of our lives.
From The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Time is a slippery concept.
Humans have an innate curiosity about death.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The distinction between subject and object is a human construction.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Human beings are drawn to the transcendent, but this search can lead to conflict.
From Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong
In Gnostic belief, the material world is often seen as a prison for the soul.
From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The only time I feel alive is when I’m playing.
From Open by Andre Agassi
Every whale tells a story, and through their existence, we learn about our own.
From The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.
In the cosmic ocean, we are but a drop.
From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Every human being is a philosopher.
From Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Eternity is a long time. But, at least it’s a long time.
To me, the most fascinating thing about being a corpse is that you can’t do anything.
From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Nothing is ever truly forgotten, and nothing is ever truly lost.
From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Life is a constant striving.
From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
Life without philosophy is life without meaning.
From The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
We are all made of stardust, but we are also made of the dust of our lives.
You are made of stardust.
Religious man is not a stranger to the world, but he is not only a part of it; he is a part of another world.
The act of watching a whale breach the surface is a reminder of the beauty that exists beyond our own lives.
From The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare
In the end, we are all just trying to make sense of our own suffering.
From The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
If there's nothing very strange going on, there's nothing very strange going on.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
To be alive is to be vulnerable.
From Rising Strong by Brené Brown
The quest for meaning is an integral part of being human.
From The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
Life is a series of events, and it’s up to us to find meaning.
From The Stranger by Albert Camus
We are made of star-stuff, and so is time.
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
There is no life in the void, only death.
From The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
We live in the present, but the past and future shape us.
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
To question is to engage in the dialogue of existence.
From The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
To understand the world, one must first understand the ground upon which they stand.
Your passions can coexist without conflict.
From The Multi-Hyphen Life by Emma Gannon
We are all part of the same chemical universe.
From The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Care is the being of Dasein.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
In the end, we are all searching for something.
From Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The more perfect a thing is, the more it has reality.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
Religious man lives in a world that is not limited to the natural world.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
From The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The search for God is an attempt to make sense of our experience.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
The truth is that God is not a being, but rather that God is the very ground of being itself.
From No god but God by Reza Aslan
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
From The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
The quest for meaning is the essence of being.
From The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
Religions were born to help us cope with the human condition.
The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Being is the indeterminate immediacy.
Faith is not a set of beliefs but a way of being in the world.
From God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero