#existentialism

"J'ai lu les postmodernistes avec un certain intérêt avec même admiration. Mais quand je les lis, j'ai toujours cet horrible sentiment lancinant que quelque chose d'absolument essentiel est oublié. Plus on dit qu'une personne est un produit social, ou un confluent de forces ou fragmentée, ou marginalisée et plus on ouvre tout un nouveau monde d'excuses."

"I can't go on, I'll go on."

"All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought."

"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."

"It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths."

"If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it."

"There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time."

"Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it."

"The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there."

"[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?"

"Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I."

"Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems."

"Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful."

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

"Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep."

"What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is."

"Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?"

"The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic."