Life begins on the other side of despair.
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
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.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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