The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, trauma and crisis are necessary catalysts to stimulate self-consciousness.” — Rollo Tomassi Copy Share Image
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“It may well be that, when Christianity passes away from a culture, nihilism is the inevitable consequence, precisely because of what Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway?… — Jean Paul Sartre 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
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Al-e-Ahmad’s invocation of existentialist and absurdist themes in the context of Tehran’s slums underlined a shared predicament. Following Hedayat, he spoke of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I thought more and more about impermanence and death - not in the form of a depressing nihilism, but as a contemplation… — Andrew Bowen Copy Share Image
“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Thus we can regard the phenomenon of reproduction as founded in the very nature of being. But we must stop there. The… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“More Important Than Truth (The Sonnet) In the beginning even I was, Bedazzled by the concept of truth. It took me some… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Wandering" What’s the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? The loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Annette Dabrowska Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of… — Alfred Dreyfus Copy Share Image
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“We’re all locked in the self-imposed sentence of our omnipotent, omnipresent digital cells now, with our PINs and biometric passwords as the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
