Quotes About Existentialism

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism.

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice.

Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion.

Waarom zal ik mij moreel gedragen, als ik toch in ieder geval de doodstraf krijg? Iedereen krijgt nou eenmaal de doodstraf en iedereen weet het.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.