Existentialism Quote by Anita Brookner

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

— Gabriel Vahanian

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it…

— Francine Pascal

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as…

— Paul Tillich

“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.

— Geri Halliwell

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

— Delmore Schwartz

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work.…

— Stanley Elkin

“Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.”

— Leo Strauss

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to being Gnostic.”

— Stephan A. Hoeller

“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which nature is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson