Existentialism Quotes

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I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer… — Ellen Barkin
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and… — Mike White
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty… — Alfred Dreyfus
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. — Paul Ricoeur
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber. — Michael Mullen
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are… — Preet Bharara
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then… — Bob Inglis
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in… — Simone de Beauvoir
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and… — Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern. — Paul Tillich
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There… — Stanley Elkin
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way… — William Barrett
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead. — Gabriel Vahanian
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. — Joan Didion
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Umberto Eco
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the… — Craig Ferguson

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