Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
Google is a company whose very existence depends on innovation - on inventing things that are new and didn't exist before - and on refining existing ideas and technologies to allow consumers to do things they couldn't do before.
Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.
To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.
You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
Gender presentation should reflect the person that you are. When you lose control of your gender presentation, you lose an important aspect of your identity and existence.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.
