Top 25 Existentialism Quotes of 87 - Page 4

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Existentialism, Human Nature, There Is No God

Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.164, Open Road Media

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism, Certain, Anguish

"Being and Nothingness". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wall, Fabulous, Existentialism

"Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Ernest Becker

Analysis, Existentialism, Problem

Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.79, Souvenir Press

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Emptiness, Existentialism, Praying

Some men become what they were born for.

Sheenagh Pugh

Men, Existentialism, Born

"Selected Poems". Book by Sheenagh Pugh, 1990.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Rollo May

Able, Existentialism, Readiness

Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.38, Jason Aronson

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

Rollo May

Choices, Fundamentals, Existentialism

Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.45, Jason Aronson

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Michel de Montaigne

Time, Long, Existentialism

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.66, Stanford University Press

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Existentialism, Dies

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.

Lewis Black

Unique, Existentialism, Enough

Lewis Black (2005). “Nothing's Sacred”, p.215, Simon and Schuster