Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The pressure exerted by a gas on the walls of its container does not depend upon the individual histories of the molecules… — John dos Passos Copy Share Image
Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
I think it's true that for existentialist thinkers, appreciation of what we are - free, makers of meaning, 'issues' for ourselves, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Al-e-Ahmad’s invocation of existentialist and absurdist themes in the context of Tehran’s slums underlined a shared predicament. Following Hedayat, he spoke of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“There are people, moreover, for whom even the absence of God is absent, who are shaken not by the privation of providence… — Zvi Kolitz Copy Share Image
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal… — Guillermo del Toro 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
“After he graduated from college, he went to Paris and became an Existentialist. He had a photograph taken of Existentialism and himself… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image