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
A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It is only when the question ceases to be identified with the subject-verb-predicate structure of grammar, and is recognized within its original… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Yes, and I have training dealing with deep, existential questions,” Dahl said. “The way I’m dealing with it right now is this:… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say… — Francis Ponge Copy Share Image
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
There's existential fears I have - losing passion and creativity and just kind of floating through life. When I feel a little… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus clearly believed in the reality of Satan and other principalities and powers. Now, I have very compelling historical, philosophical, and existential… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Money Is an Energy" Everybody is already someone else An existential tag line Money is current I would like to not live… — Justin Marks Copy Share Image
The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly,… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in… — Paul Tillich 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 only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“I think the existential dilemma is: We're social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone,… — Sally Rooney 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
As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
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