Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
“The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk” — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nihilism, she thought, is solely a privilege of the living. Respect will be the courtesy I extend to the dead.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
“With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“I didn’t come here to please. I came here to feel. And feeling — truly feeling — hurts. But it also sets… — Phoenix Moon Copy Share Image
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of bermensch, was for man to overcome dogma. To replace dogma, with your own perspective. To think for yourself,… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We look at, the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But isn’t absurdity part of being human? We aren’t ageless creatures who watch centuries pass from afar. Our worlds are small, our… — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Though violent action is sometimes associated with nihilism, what makes such activity nihilistic, it seems, is the belief that ultimately nothing will… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
I was asked about existentialism, and I told the person asking go look in the mirror for existence. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself,… — John Williams Copy Share Image
![“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a world that nurtured him kindly, liberally educated him for free, sent him to no wars, brought him to manhood without scary rituals or famine or fear of vengeful gods…” quote by Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c61/ian-mcewan-494_existentialism_here-were-the-luxury-and-priviledge-of-t_2964513.png)
