In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The world itself, whose single meaning I do not understand, is but a vast irrational. If one could only say just once:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
“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
“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
“This line of reasoning would seem to lead to the absurd conclusion that the world is filled with noises no one hears,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
“Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.” — Samuel Johnson 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
“Ape chase the “after”, over life, for apes have alcohol in their vein.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
