Being Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Being that can be understood is language.”

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

“Before you can do something you must first be something.”

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

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