Existentialism Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as…

— Gary Cox

“When all is said and done, this Existentialist precept resonates with me more than any other philosophy of life I know. The idea that…

— Daniel Klein

“It's only when we dare to experience the full anxiety of knowing that life doesn't go on forever that we can experience transcendence and…

— Thomas Cathcart

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

— Otto Weininger

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

— Bernard Lonergan

“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he…

— Erich Fromm

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his…

— Anonymous

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is…

— Karl Jaspers

“Victor Frankl: By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true…

— Viktor E. Frankl