The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity... Same… — Kansas Copy Share Image
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Maybe the path went in a circle. Maybe there was a more gradual, friendly slope back up the mountain so he wouldn't… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger… — David Lynch 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
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid anymore. But I know that the terror exists. I know the kind of terror it is. You can't conceive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of loss of hope, one is the feeling when your pulse slows down and you are going to… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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