Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I dream, therefore I exist.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

At times I think and at times I am.

Who does understand life?

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

I think, therefore I am.

I am, therefore I'll think.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

The actuality of thought is life.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.