#existential

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#existentialism #faith #faith

When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence. ↗

— Rudolf Karl Bultmann

#existentialism #faith #reason #faith

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared. It was fatalism with a loophole, and all you had to do to make it work was never miss a sign. Survival by coordination, as it were. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside. Like a frog evading a shillelagh in a midnight marsh. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#existential #fate #luck #faith

If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but not believed; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God. ↗

— Kierkegaard

#fear-and-trembling #faith

It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form of problemata , in order to see what a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox which is capable of transforming a murder into a holy act well-pleasing to God, a paradox which gives Isaac back to Abraham, which no thought can master, because faith begins precisely there where thinking leaves off. ↗

— Kierkegaard

#faith #fear-and-trembling #faith

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor #sarcastic-humor #satire #humor

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #inspirational

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #philosophy #wisdom #life

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#existentialism #follow-your-bliss #self-actualization #self-determination #life

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#psychology #true-to-life #life