“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis… — John Marmysz 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
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“He realized that time, clocks ticking, everything is just a human-made concept. That clocks didn’t tick back in the times he was… — Chandler Ivanko Copy Share Image
“Sonnet of Superpowers Poet's superpower is their pain, Philosopher's superpower is reason. Scientist's superpower is their brain, Artist's superpower is their vision.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“in the poetry that opens his book the Preacher is not commenting on what life is like without Christ. He is not… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
“I do not know which impulse was stronger in me when I began to think: the original thirst for knowledge or the… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“..."I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless—I think that’s… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“Bait and Switch by Stewart Stafford Cutthroats robbed me with daggers by night, I cried out ere they melted back to shade:… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. . . . You… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The Patrician took a sip of his beer. “I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
“Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“for the existentialists, what generated anxiety was not the godlessness of the world, per se, but rather the freedom to choose between… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
