Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have been born if my parents had stayed in China. Which is kind of funny. But it also just kind… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and… — Nick Bostrom 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
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself;… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
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