“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Have you figured it out yet?” “What?” I say. “What it means to be alive?” “Nah mate…” “I guess the secret lies… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Though violent action is sometimes associated with nihilism, what makes such activity nihilistic, it seems, is the belief that ultimately nothing will… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life… — Hal Bennett Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself,… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. — Ernest Becker 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
“ Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the oceans tide, it is sound; When fervency of… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
