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Existence Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
- There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have…
- Man's existence precedes his essence
- Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had…
- I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
- Existence precedes and rules essence.
- Existence is prior to essence.
- That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
- Existence is an imperfection.
- What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only…
- He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was…
- I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
- And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which…
- Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart…
- What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and…
More Existence Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire