Quotes and Sayings About Existential
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
-- Albert Camus -
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
-- Albert Camus -
Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.
-- Archie Shepp -
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
-- Bo Burnham -
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Zen is not “attained†by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.†We do not “comeâ€, we “are.†Don't strive to become, but be.
-- Bruce Lee -
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.
-- Dalai Lama -
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
-- Dana Carvey -
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Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
-- E. F. Schumacher -
All power is in essence power to deny mortality.
-- Ernest Becker -
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
-- Ernest Becker -
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.
-- Esther Perel -
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Whether arrived at through reason or revelation... natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.
-- Ilana MercerSource : "Why The Land Belongs To Bundy". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. April 25, 2014.
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One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
-- Irvin D. Yalom -
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
-- Jason Silva -
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.
-- John Lahr -
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The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
-- John Lanchester -
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.
-- Julius Evola -
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.
-- Karl JaspersSource : Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.60, JHU Press
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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
-- Kate Atkinson -
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
-- Lily Tomlin -
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
-- Paul Tillich -
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
-- Paul Tillich -
Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.
-- Ray BrassierSource : Ray Brassier (2007). “Nihil Unbound: Naturalism and Anti-Phenomenological Realism”, Palgrave Macmillan
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No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
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Batman Begins leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.
-- Stephanie Zacharek -
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.
-- Stephen A. DiamondSource : Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.9, SUNY Press