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#existentialism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #existentialism




Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself. So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.


Laura Anderson Kurk


#dating #existentialism #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #humanitarian

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience.


Walker Percy


#existentialism #experience #genuineness #the-self #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

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.


Barnett Newman


#communication #existentialism #expression #origins #the-void

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.


Graham Greene


#life

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.


Robin Sloan


#life

Everything is true, and nothing is true!


Albert Camus


#life

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.


Albert Camus


#existentialism #meaning-of-life #nihilism #the-absurd #life

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.


Franz Kafka


#existentialism #life

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.


Hermann Hesse


#existentialism #maturity #youth #youth






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