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Existential Quotes by Stephen A. Diamond
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this…
- Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.
More Existential Quotes
- One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One… — Norman Mailer
- Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce
- When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with… — Michael Kirby
- For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat… — Ban Ki-moon
- It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each… — Rollo May
- Most people are other people. — Oscar Wilde