Existentialism Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

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

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

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 been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

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

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.