Existential Quotes

227 quotes by 151 authors

Despair is suffering without meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has… — Kirk J. Schneider
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them… — Ernest Becker
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a… — William James
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than… — Stephen A. Diamond
The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of… — Paul Tillich
In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic… — Sam Keen
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker
I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt… — Viktor E. Frankl
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. — Friedrich Nietzsche
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of… — Rollo May
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. — Simone de Beauvoir
All power is in essence power to deny mortality. — Ernest Becker
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his… — Rollo May
Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never fully reflect the… — Stephen A. Diamond
Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science,… — Kirk J. Schneider
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic,… — Stephen A. Diamond

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