Ambiguity Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it…

— Francine Pascal

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as…

— Paul Tillich

“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which nature is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

— Norman Mailer

“Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.”

— Leo Strauss

My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.

— Geri Halliwell

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Existential things are just relatable to everybody.

— Ti West

“The thoughtless habit of using the words “existence” and “exist” as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being…

— Martin Heidegger

I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really…

— Zadie Smith

“The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. “Existential” in this sense can be defined as…

— Paul Tillich