Ontic Quotes & Sayings

Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else. — Calum Hood

That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or anyone can lay down that will tell you what your dharma is. — Frederick Lenz

I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep. — Zoe Lister-Jones

The thing is," I say to Paul Tillich, in my head, "the thing is, Paul, that ultimately, I don't think my anxiety is ontic, moral, or spiritual." I look at him. "At the end of it all, I just need some money, Paul," I say. Paul Tillich nods. If I were rich, none of this would matter. I just need some money. — Caitlin Moran

I started grasping at moments that weren't misery. Slowly, slowly, I found them. — Kate Milford

Better than a sharp stick in the eye. — James Williams

In war there is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur

His appearance was utterly bizarre, his tiny baby's head bawling loudly while his thick arms flailed dangerously in all directions, narrowly missing Harry, who ducked. Harry raised his wand but to his amazement Hermione seized his arm. "You can't hurt a baby!" There was no time to argue the point. Harry — J.K. Rowling

I hear my family's voices in the jangling of my charms. — Viola Shipman

MENTAL LAMENT
Anagram depicting life sentence for materialists
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Above all, there has never been a community that did not cohabit with its dead. But today, socially, the dead are no more. They are deceased. They are ontic has-beens. And with the vanishing of the dead, the most significant distinction between homo and all other primates is gone. When you show me a paleolithic skull, I recognize it as human not because of the cubic measure of the brain or because of the hand tools found in the grave but because of signs of burial. These reveal that this "person" lived a life on the borderline between the seen and the unseen, in the presence of the living and the dead. Neither the dead nor other invisible beings had to show themselves to be considered social realities. — Barbara Duden

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast — John Dryden

Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: "ontic anxiety" is the fear of fate and death. The second is "moral anxiety," from guilt, or condemnation. The third is "spiritual anxiety," prompted by an empty life, without direction or meaning. — Caitlin Moran