Assertion Quote by Stanley Elkin

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Norman Mailer

“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

“Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to being Gnostic.”

— Stephan A. Hoeller

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

— Gabriel Vahanian

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

— Henri Matisse

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

To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has…

— Merold Westphal

This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing…

— Thomas Merton

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

— Albert Camus