In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to… — Stephen A. Diamond 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
“Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States. — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle. — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
Hamas is a terrorist organization, an existential threat to the state of Israel, and should be removed from power. — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation. — David Grinspoon 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
There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
