Sentence examples for total of existence from inspiring English sources

Temporal passage is the continual growth of the sum total of existence.

The event becomes past by virtue of acquiring new relations, and it acquires these relations because the sum total of existence has been increased by the addition of fresh slices of reality.

One poster on this site described Bentley as a "total waste of existence," another as a "crazy fuck".

We calculated "well-year" as a measure of the cumulative number of oil wells and total years of existence within each canton (Table  1).

As Kirshenbaum says, "The sad parts of his life were the sum total of his existence".

Once I had turned out the light, watching became the sum total of my existence and identity.

And the 19th century is hardly the sum total of the tribes' existence here or their cultural contribution".

He absorbed the ideas of the sociologist and anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), who examined the role of gift giving and magic in society and propounded a theory of "totality"; that is, of examining the actions of a total human existence rather than a fragmented one.

Philosophers are temperamentally inclined to reconstruct reality according to the requirements of explanation, in total disregard of the requirements of existence.

The CCC, which at its largest employed 500,000 men, provided work for a total of 3,000,000 during its existence.

Bitcoin already has a market capitalisation equivalent to $5.7bn – the approximate total of all bitcoin in existence – and feels far more than a novelty.