Quotes of: Existential Keyword

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Paul Ricoeur

Being busy is different from taking action.

Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

But enough of the drama. Winter has turned to spring. And I am feeling good.

Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while the whole surrounding area in which ordinary men live from day to day and have their dealings with other men is c...

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any concepti...

Existentialism Is a Humanism

The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes to the rejected elements of existence, art may lead us to a more complete and less artificial celebra...

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, espec...

Man's Search for Meaning

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which ha...

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

[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 way of getting the other person to exercise all his ...

No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

Laughter is the antidote to existential pain

Slabscape: Reset

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.

Jerry Saltz

Life has existential suffering; we become happy by caring.

Debasish Mridha

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Steven Wright

Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration.

Chris Matakas

When life is an existential suffering, death is our ultimate blessings.

Debasish Mridha