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#existentialism

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Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.


Christian Smith


#human-nature #humanism #identity #personalism #personhood

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.


Rollo May


#myth #science #science

The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all teeth were but ready they would not need even to bite, the bones would crack themselves and the marrow would be freely accessible to the feeblest of dogs. If I remain faithful to this metaphor, then the goal of my aims, my questions, my inquiries, appears monstrous, it is true. For I want to compel all dogs thus to assemble together, I want the bones to crack open under the pressure of their collective preparedness, and then I want to dismiss them to the ordinary life they love, while all by myself, quite alone, I lap up the marrow. That sounds monstrous, almost as if I wanted to feed on the marrow, not merely of bone, but of the whole canine race itself. But it is only a metaphor. The marrow that I am discussing here is no food; on the contrary, it is a poison.


Franz Kafka


#philosophy #faith

Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?


Cormac McCarthy


#existentialism #realist #life

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.


Leo Tolstoy


#knowledge #life #philosophy #life

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.


P.G. Wodehouse


#humor #life #pondering #humor

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules


Albert Camus


#morality #ethics

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.


Anton Chekhov


#metaphysics #metaphysics

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.


Albert Camus


#passion #struggle #passion

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.


Rollo May


#myths #myth






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