Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Words are loaded pistols.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
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.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
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