A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
existentialism absurd human-condition
To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.
choice existentialism choose responsible
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.
existentialism expression communication void origins
We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? 'Be strong and of a good courage.' Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes.. If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.
courage pragmatism existentialism
Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?
dreams existentialism questions
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, mitigate, counteract, or transmute.
existentialism evil daimonic
I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.
life existence existentialism friends
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
future existentialism despair hopelessness
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
paradise existentialism heaven
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.
paradise existentialism heaven eternity present present-moment forever
Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.
solitude existentialism hell black-humor
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
life humanity existentialism
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
existentialism goodness ignorance camus the-plague
If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
meaning existentialism
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
meaning existentialism relationship
This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day will soon end and I already wish it gone, there are men who have entrusted all their hopes to it, all their love and their last efforts. There are dying men or others who are waiting for a debt to come due, who wish that tomorrow would never come. There are others for whom the day will break like a pang of remorse; and others who are tired, for whom the night will never be long enough to give them the rest that they need. And I - who have lost my day - what right do I have to wish that tomorrow comes?
time memory existence existentialism
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.
existentialism new-age hippies
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
passion existentialism struggle
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
psychology existentialism true-to-life
How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
secrets existentialism
Without awareness, we are not truly alive.
self-awareness existentialism
Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
existentialism baseball
But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no desire to become any of these; it is by no means striving to imitate mankind! It is quite impervious to all our aesthetic and moral judgements! It has likewise no impulse to self-preservation or impulses of any kind; neither doe sit know any laws. Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress..
existentialism universe
Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning. Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully. Now, no one will live this fate, knowing it to be absurd, unless he does everything to keep before him that absurd brought to light by consciousness.
existentialism consciousness
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
youth existence existentialism maturity
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