Quotes About Existence

Sólo existe certeza con respecto al pasado, y con respecto al futuro, la certeza de la muerte.

Sin amor, la humanidad no podría existir un día mas.

Come potrebbe un uomo prigioniero nella ragnatela della routine ricordarsi che è un uomo, un individuo ben distinto, uno al quale è concessa un'unica occasione di vivere, con speranze e delusioni, dolori e timori, col desiderio di amare e il terrore della solitudine e del nulla?

the love for life, and not only the wish to remain alive

As with all semantic difficulties, the answer can only be arbitrary. What matters is that we know what kind of union we are talking about when we speak of love. Do we refer to love as the mature answer to the problem of existence, or do we speak of those immature forms of love which may be called symbiotic union?

De a létezés egzisztenciális módja mindig jelen van - ha elnyomva is. Egyetlenegy Saulból nem lesz Pál, hacsak már megtérése elÅ'tt nem volt az.

Das Wesentliche an der Existenz des Menschen ist ja, dass er sich über das Tierreich und seine instiktive Anpassung erhoben hat, dass er die Natur transzendiert hat, wenn er sie auch nie ganz verlässt.

Wer bin ich, wenn ich bin, was ich habe und dann verliere, was ich habe?

The having mode of existence, the attitude centered on property and profit, necessarily produces the desire—indeed the need—for power.

The person and the name become equivalent; the name demonstrates that the person is a lasting, indestructible substance—and not a process.

By being I refer to the mode of existence in which one neither has anything nor craves to have something, but is joyous, employs one's faculties productively, is oned to the world.

What is the goal of living? What is life's meaning for man? But is this really a meaningful question? Is there a reason for wanting to live, and would we rather not live if we had no such reason?

Faith in oneself is a condition of our ability to promise, and since, as Nietzsche said, man can be defined by his capacity to promise, faith is one of the conditions of human existence.

I have stressed the psychological side of freedom, but I have also tried to show that the psychological problem cannot be separated from the material basis of human existence, from the economic, social, and political structure of society.

There exists no more difficult art than living. For other arts and sciences, numerous teachers are to be found everywhere. Even young people believe that they have acquired these in such a way, that they can teach them to others: throughout the whole of life, one must continue to learn to live and, what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die. SENECA

Desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte, de lunes a lunes, de la mañana a la noche: todas las actividades están rutinizadas y prefabricadas. ¿Cómo puede un hombre preso en esa red de actividades rutinarias recordar que es un hombre, un individuo único, al que sólo le ha sido otorgada una única oportunidad de vivir, con esperanzas y desilusiones, con dolor y temor, con el anhelo de amar y el miedo a la nada y a la separatidad?

El amor a la vida es el núcleo, un núcleo muy concreto y real, de todo tipo de amor. Quien crea que ama a los seres humanos sin amar la vida, puede desear apegarse a otra persona, pero no amarla de verdad. Nos imaginamos entonces a una persona que ama todo lo que crece y está vivo, que se siente atraída por el crecimiento infantil, por la maduración. Para semejante persona, incluso lo que no está vivo, como una piedra o el agua, se convierte en algo vivo.

Well-being is the state of having arrived at the full development of reason: reason not in the sense of a merely intellectual judgment, but in that of grasping truth by "letting things be" (to use Heidegger's term) as they are.

Kesatuan yang dicapai dalam kerja produktif tidaklah bersifat antarpribadi; kesatuan yang dicapai dalam peleburan orgiastik bersifat sementara; kesatuan yang dicapai oleh kesesuaian hanyalah kesatuan semu. Oleh karena itu, semuanya hanyalah jawaban parsial atas masalah eksistensi. Jawaban yang utuh terletak pada pencapaian penyatuan antarpribadi, peleburan dengan pribadi lain, dalam cinta. (Terjemahan Andri Kristiawan, Penerbit Gramedia)

Modern man is starved for life.

Ours is the greatest social experiment ever made to solve the question whether pleasure (as a passive affect in contrast to the active affect, wellbeing and joy) can be a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. For the first time in history the satisfaction of the pleasure drive is not only the privilege of a minority but is possible for more than half the population. The experiment has already answered the question in the negative.

At?l, hareketsiz duran yaÅŸam ölmeye eÄŸilimlidir; eÄŸer at?ll?k eksiksizse, ölüm gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ demektir.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Messianism is not accidental to man's existence but the inherent, logical answer to it—the alternative to man's self-destruction.