This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I think in a way I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp I learned to believe in men.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not discovers to me his existence.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

When I wonder what the future of books will be I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed everyone had a horse. Then cars became available and their convenience compared to horses was undeniable.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist or if they have existed up until now that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

But blind to former as to future fate what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence as a dream.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965 I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Fix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear.