See also: Meaninglessness
Are we to regard it as the product of pure chance, and believe that everything happens at random without rhyme or reason?
Colin Brown
What we call the world is intrinsically unintelligible, apart from the existence of God.
Fredrick Copleston
The issue is whether the world is explicable solely in terms of itself, i.e., is the world itself ultimate, or is there a being other than the world to which the world is related?
David H. Freeman
When we try to think about this infinitely fascinating universe in which we live we find that we are faced in the end with the mystery of existence, of why there is a universe at all.
John Hick
I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause.
David Hume
The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” is regarded even by some skeptical philosophers as a significant one.
H.D. Lewis
Nothing in this world is able to explain its own existence; thus, there must be a God in order to explain the world in which we find ourselves.
John Warwick Montgomery
Man cannot find the ultimate explanation of his own being anywhere but in God himself.
Edward Sillem
… the riddle of all riddles …
Paul Tillich
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.
Ludwig Wittgenstein