661 Quotes About Being

It might sound farcical, if not a cliché, to say that life is marvelously beautiful. But for those who have survived from a tragic event or terminal illness, waking up every morning is a miracle, as a magical sensation of new life dancing in the palms of their hands. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Sensation of Not Being Dead)

To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them.

By being you are doing.

Lose yourself in the aesthetic of being, and see where you land.

Remember that relationships flourish through nourishment and engagement so if you want yours to be fruitful and fulfilling increase your levels of giving and work on being present.

The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.

Sartre expresses the basic tenet of existentialism in this way: Existence precedes essence. In this statement he is taking existentia and essentia according to their metaphysical meaning, which from Plato's time on has said that essentia precedes existentia. Sartre reverses this statement. But the reversal of a metaphysical statement remains a metaphysical statement. With it he stays with metaphysics in oblivion of the truth of Being.

For words and language are not wrappings in which things are packed for the commerce of those who write and speak. It is in words and language that things first come into being and are.

How many Germans "live" who speak their mother tongue effortlessly and yet are unable to understand Kant's Critique of Pure Reason or one of Hölderlin's hymns! Hence whoever has mastered the Greek language, or has some acquaintance with it by accident or choice, possess not the least proof thereby that he is able to think according to the thought of a Greek thinker.