“But if one can't believe the Daily Telegraph one might as well become an Existentialist.” — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when” — John Green Copy Share Image
“…Me anima la débil esperanza de que alguna persona llegue a entenderme. Aunque sea una sola persona. (66)” — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“I never consciously think of writing a so-called Christian novel. I don’t think Albert Camus ever thought of writing an existentialist novel,… — Rudy Wiebe Copy Share Image
“Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to… — Gary Cox Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, this Existentialist precept resonates with me more than any other philosophy of life I know. The… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“In his embryonic form, as the Outsider, he does not know himself well enough to understand the driving force behind his feelings.… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Had Beta been French, perhaps he would've been an existentialist, probably though that would not have satisfied him. He smiled contemptuously at… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how to reply. Mama,… — Julie Metz Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and… — Upanishad Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existentialismul constituie alternativa la felul de a fi reductiv al nihilismului si la modul fragmentar de operare specific postmodernismului, vizand existentul in… — Stefan Bolea Copy Share Image
“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat… — Tarun Betala 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
Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“In contrast to most of the existentialist schools of thought, logotherapy is in no way pessimistic; but it is realistic in that… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image