I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
“I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike… — Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For… — George Pattison 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
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand? If that's the case, then - then everything is dicated by random chance! Somewhere, there's a universe where you… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You know that trying to be a nihilist is real funny. Because you're doing something that you think requires effort. But basically… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. — Anonymous 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'm trying to deal with the thirty years I spent in prison, not the physical, because of existentialism. — Jedi Mind Tricks Copy Share Image
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Nihilism, she thought, is solely a privilege of the living. Respect will be the courtesy I extend to the dead.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent, and the nonperception of the Existent.” — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Anonymous 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
