“At this stage of the game, I don’t have the time for patience and tolerance. Ten years ago, even five years ago,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Anybody who has done high school physics knows Newton’s Third Law. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You… — Sean J. Halford Copy Share Image
“To speak evil' is to speak this fateful, paradoxical situation that is the reversible concatenation of good and evil. That is to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be.… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
“Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond beings occurs in the essence… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect for its significance I have sought… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“For if we regard space and time as properties that must, as regards their possibility, be found in things in themselves, [...]… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and… — Upanishad Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“People are ignorant of what any street clock knows. Why? Because the crack that cleaves existence also swallows their existence-reflecting consciousnesses. Thrown… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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