The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
“The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk” — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner 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 know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“What's the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? But the loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything,… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“extreme conceptions arise with the conception of inherently existent phenomena. it has been thoroughly analyzed how phenomena do not inherently exist; when… — chandrakirti Copy Share Image
“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in… — Kierkegaard, Søren Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into the illusory calm of fulfillment.… — Karl Jaspers 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
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration… — Jack Gilbert 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
“One of my constant preoccupations is trying to understand how it is that other people exist, how it is that there are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“Did not the statement, "You do not exist," contain a logical absurdity?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
