“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 quietness is a consequence of my deeply entrenched nihilism. I don’t believe there is any real value in my or anyone… — Emily R. Austin Copy Share Image
“Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
“We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“are, in a certain way, continuously voting with our money. “Deeper” existential thinkers like to deploy variations on the theme of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Salvation is no supernatural or extraterrestrial phenomenon, though, throughout history it is seen mostly as something supernatural and mystical. Salvation simply means… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk” — Kierkegaard 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
“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 human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. . . . You… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image