“It seems to us that in its most basic definition, existential despair is the painful discrepancy between what is and what should… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Protecting America and our allies from the existential threat of a nuclear-armed Iran is paramount, and I remain committed to ensuring Iran's… — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology,… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“For who brooded over the meaninglessness of life anymore? Teenagers. They were the only ones who were preoccupied with existential issues, and… — Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“When I arrived the News was three years old and Ed Lotterman was on the verge of a breakdown. To hear him… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better.… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game;… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I definitely have that bug; I'd really like to do some auteur, existential pieces, darker films, something that's really reflective of life.… — Noah Centineo 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
There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses… — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“At some point in our lives, we ask ourselves the inevitable existential questions: “What is my purpose? Why am I here? Can… — Noella Menon Copy Share Image
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“For who are we if not the sum of our experiences, the things that we gather and collect in life? Once you… — C.J. Tudor 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
We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a… — Alan Dershowitz 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
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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