“A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We isolate with every step, brick our exits, and seek deeper inside our soul for the boundary of existentialism, the essence... — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead. — Gabriel Vahanian Copy Share Image
The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme! — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway?… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For me nihilism is a stage of life being meaningless. But there is good in the bad. The stages I go through… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I went through this kind of existential crisis. I was going through a breakup; I tore my ACL and my meniscus and… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand? If that's the case, then - then everything is dicated by random chance! Somewhere, there's a universe where you… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My priority is not to be called an atheist or believer, but to be human. My priority is not to peddle any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.” — Vipin Behari Goyal Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus 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
To be evil is to suffer incredulity of your person who is faceted by the non-effects of a responsive behavior. — Isaac Thomas Copy Share Image
“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
“The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.” — Chandrashekar Copy Share Image
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image