Quotes About Self

Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.

I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.

You are what you are not and are not what you are.

Faire, et en faisant se faire et n'être rien que ce qu'on fait

Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.

Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such

In choosing myself, I choose man.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism.

To exist is to create your own life.

all of us abandon ourselves to existence, because we were among ourselves, only among ourselves, it has taken us unawares, in the disorder, the day to day drift: I am ashamed for myself and for what exists in front of it.

Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...

El criminal no hace la belleza; él mismo es la auténtica belleza.

Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.

Yo no tengo tribulaciones, dispongo de dinero como un rentista, no tengo jefe, ni mujer, ni hijos; existo, eso es todo. Y esta tribulación es tan vaga, tan metafísica, que me da vergüenza.

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has an infinite interest in himself and his destiny. Secondly, the existent individual always feels himself to be in Becoming, with a task before him;

El hombre no es nada más que su proyecto, no existe más que en la medida en que se realiza, no es, por lo tanto, más que el conjunto de sus actos, nada más que su vida.

The only being which can be called free is the being which nihilates its being.

Every human reality is a passion in that it projects losing itself so as to found being and by the same stroke to constitute the In-itself which escapes contingency by being its own foundation, the Ens causa sui, which religions call God. Thus the passion of man is the reverse of that of Christ, for man loses himself as man in order that God may be born. But the idea of God is contradictory and we lose ourselves in vain. Man is a useless passion.

I am sure that fifteen minutes would be enough to reach supreme self-contempt. No thank you, I want none of that.

The existentialist portrays a coward as one who makes himself a coward by his actions, a hero who makes himself heroic.

L'homme est condamné à être libre (Manusia dikutuk untuk menjadi bebas)

Il ne s'agit pas de choisit son époque, mais de se choisir en elle.

I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.