356 quotes found
“() symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality”
“Existentialism, in both its Continental and its Anglo-Saxon versions, is an attempt to solve the problem without really facing it: to solve it by attributing to the individual an empty, lonely free...”
“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign ind...”
“Our greatest challenge today...is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing chan...”
“Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.”
“One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
“The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.”
“Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.”
“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition, and, unless a person is resolved, it can only be a matter of time...”
“I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.”
“People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.”
“[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what you like, I'm just here for you', but it...is, or can be, very manipulative. It is a...”
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonat...”
“Max: Why do I get the feeling youve played god and you dont know what youve created.Dr Hurstville: Hasnt god done the same with us?”
“Youre not interested in her because by your definition she isnt real. But your brain doesnt know the difference. Its all just chemicals firing and testosterone giving you a hard-on.”
“He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the same. He thought that the fear of death was per...”
“Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.”
“When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.”
“I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and that false humanization trips up man and trips up his humanity. A thing exists that is fuller, ...”
