“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
“To be a man, to live here in this world, is to be put on trial” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when” — John Green Copy Share Image
Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom” — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Copy Share Image
“You’ll go from heaven to hell. From silence to scream. From deep sleep to awakening. And by the time you finish... you… — Phoenix Moon Copy Share Image
Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Humanism is the philosophy that says humanity has unlimited potential. Give people enough time and education, and they can solve any problem.… — John Macarthur 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
“In his embryonic form, as the Outsider, he does not know himself well enough to understand the driving force behind his feelings.… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“as human beings, we must inevitably see the universe from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it in terms of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Existentialists try to find the answer to something so simple and that is what nothing is. Nothing is nothing, and if he… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Nihilism remains partial until it is realized that the reductio ad hominem56 is actually a reductio hominis. “The night brought on by… — Mark C. Taylor Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“If there is no extant God and no extant gods, no good and no evil, no right and no wrong, no meaning… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
“Existentialist literature provides a more satisfactory account of the persistence of feminine narcissism. Simone de Beauvoir makes use of the existentialist conception… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
“In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
“To Vic and other kids his age, the past didn't exist except as a quick, oversimplified Wikipedia snippets, that ultimately didn't matter… — David Hontiveros Copy Share Image
“Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Ape chase the “after”, over life, for apes have alcohol in their vein.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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