Existential Quotes - Page 4

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Most people are other people.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.