356 quotes found
“But the man we are now analysing accustoms himself not to appeal from his own to any authority outside him. He is satisfied with himself exactly as he is. Ingenuously, without any need of being vai...”
“This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of to-day two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and therefore, of his personality; and his radical i...”
“Yes its me, I myself, what I turned out to be, () Im the one here in myself, its me. () Whatever I was, whatever I wasntits all in what I am. Whatever I wanted, whatever I didnt wantall of this has...”
“Her nausea increased, the dialect had become unfamiliar, the way our wet throats bathed the words in the liquid of saliva was intolerable. A sense of repulsion had invested all the bodies in moveme...”
“The law of karma says that no matter what context I find myself in, it is neither my parents, nor my science teacher, nor the mailman, but I alone who have brought myself into this state because of...”
“In life, we need to go through a naked tree season in order to turn nothingness into meaning.”
“Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one" like me remembering the way it could have been. Help me with this barricade. No surrender. No defeat. A spectre's haunting Al...”
“I have finished Russell's Nightmares and must confess that they did not come up to expectation. No doubt it was my fault for expecting too much, knowing how unsatisfactory I find his philosophical ...”
“Kafka is an ethical, not an aesthetic, writer. There is no conclusion to his books. The Castle was actually unfinished, but what ending could there be to it? And there is some doubt about the prope...”
“Every increase in objectivity takes us further from reality.”
“How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?”
“Existentialism is commonly associated with Left-Bank Parisian cafes and the family of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir who gathered there in the years immediately following the ...”
“At the heart of existentialist philosophy is the premise that all existence is absurd. Life has no meaning and death is the ultimate absurdity, But in the course of this absurd existence, man is fo...”
“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that, first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself.... Not only is man what...”
“all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.”
“I am naked and a beggar and an atom in the vortex of humanity.”
“In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.”
“Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.”
“God! when you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn't come fast enough. Instead of being open, y...”
“Our fellow men are black magicians. And whoever is with them is a black magician on the spot. Think for a moment, can you deviate from the path that your fellow men have lined up for you? And if yo...”
