The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like… — Manu Chao Copy Share Image
By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.” — Vernon D. Burns Copy Share Image
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
“Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“as a teenager i experienced existential despair as an unsexy sensation of repressed orgasm in the chest; today i experience existential despair… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“People are ignorant of what any street clock knows. Why? Because the crack that cleaves existence also swallows their existence-reflecting consciousnesses. Thrown… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
“Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.” — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The wilderness was dangerous; it infected me. I would be forever unmoored, inured to the safety of isolation.” — Scott Pearce Copy Share Image
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought… — Leo Strauss 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
“Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
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