“The very first existential purpose of one's life, after securing the means to acquire food, clothes and shelter, is to understand oneself,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
“White supremacy is a crime and a lie, but it's also a machine that generates meaning. This existential gift, as much as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Putin was very clear, as were all his lieutenants, that their great fear was that Ukraine was becoming a Western bulwark on… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. —VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man’s Search for… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
Bond, especially Connery's Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes - just right for a time when class was… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
“Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“It’s also the manifestation of everyone’s existential question: Am I who I was supposed to be? Is this the life I was… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
