“as human beings, we must inevitably see the universe from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it in terms of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… — William Barrett 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
“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
[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature… — Mary Hays 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
“Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
“But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As joy dwindles with the years I wistfully recall When the christmas tree Looked ten feet tall And the presents under it… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image