Existentialism Quotes

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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as… — Simone de Beauvoir
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is scarcely any passion without struggle. — Albert Camus
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. — Norman Mailer
I rebel; therefore I exist. — Albert Camus
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of… — Andrew Sean Greer
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The… — David Eagleman
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. — Jean-Paul Sartre
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I want my name to mean me. — Mark Haddon
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… — Jean-Paul Sartre
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every… — Soren Kierkegaard
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my… — Jean-Paul Sartre
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. — Saul Bellow
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. — Anton Chekhov

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