Quotes about Being
is obviously high time that the Jewish conception of nature, at any rate in regard to animals, should come to an end in Europe, and that the eternal being which, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal should be recognized as such, and as such treated with care and consideration.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true. He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nought to God... Christ's goodness and rightousness reached unto His saints in the earth but God was high above and beyond it all....
- AW Pink
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
- Ayn Rand
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
- Ayn Rand
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe;
- Stephen Hawking
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
- Khalil Gibran
I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
- Carl Jung
Everything has being through the love of God.
- Julian of Norwich
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God's very self.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
My health and my family are the core of my being.
- Jon Bon Jovi