“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“the fantastic power and ultimate absurdity of unchecked exponential growth.” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“It's a new world we gotta build - founded on love, tempered by reason.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives Copy Share Image
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“It may well be that, when Christianity passes away from a culture, nihilism is the inevitable consequence, precisely because of what Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Wandering" What’s the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? The loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Annette Dabrowska Copy Share Image
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of… — Alfred Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Obviously simplicity isn’t an unalloyed good — existentialism might be more like jumbling everything together into boxes and sorting it out when… — Adam Kotsko Copy Share Image
“Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night...Lying is a bad thing. It makes you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in… — Paul Auster 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
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and… — Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The awareness of mortality casts a bittersweet shadow over the vibrancy of life and love. We exist in a state of impermanence,… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
“I think the existential dilemma is: We're social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is nothing how-so-ever absurd which is not defended by some theologian.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
