Famous quotes containing the words existed and/or prior:
“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)