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#existentialism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #existentialism




The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#existentialism #faith #beauty

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.


José Saramago


#existentialism #human #human-condition #life #religion

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.


Andrew Sean Greer


#existentialism #imagination #knowing-someone #knowledge #love

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#experience

Our greatest challenge today...is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.


Kirk J. Schneider


#faith #faith

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.


Steven L. Peck


#existentialism #hell #solitude #humor

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.


Jim Holt


#nirvana #philosophy #life

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.


Miguel de Unamuno


#philosophy #life

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.


Andrew Sean Greer


#secrets #marriage

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.


Noah Cicero


#pain #screaming #suffering #terrorism






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