Being Quotes

“The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having.”

“There's no place to get to. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be but what you are.”

“Being that can be understood is language.”

“In order to do, it is necessary to be.”

“Thou canst not know what is not - that is impossible - nor utter it.”

“It is necessary to speak and to think what is; for being is, but nothing is not.”

“We are so busy doing, doing, doing, that we have no time to be.”

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

“There is nothing to do, nothing to become. Just be.”

“True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.”

“To know is not the same as to be.”

“The great and rich are not those who have the most, but those who are the most.”

“Love is not something we do, it is something we are.”

“You can't learn to act. You can only learn to be.”

“What the world wants is not so much what we have done, or what we have said, as what we are.”

“Don’t think of what you have to do, don’t think of what you have to get, just be.”

“You don't get what you want, you get what you are.”

“People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are.”

“The first thing to do is to be. The second is to do. And the third is to have.”

“It is not so much our judgments as it is our prejudices that constitute our being.”