“I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“The existential realm is, from the standpoint of propositional structure, a raging chaos.” — Murray Krieger Copy Share Image
“I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and… — Jeffrey Rasley Copy Share Image
The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems. — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
“When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great… — Rudolf Karl Bultmann Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday! CLOV (violently): That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up… — Ali Shariati Copy Share Image
“A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our… — Gerald Corey Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself. So, this was me,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“My school is existence, not existentialism. No ism is sufficient, my home is integration.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“What's the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? But the loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“She's studying the Existentialists this month. Asked for a study day last week to kill an Arab on the beach.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
