Tag: existentialism
21 quotes
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Humankind will proceed toward perfection when it feels that humanity is: A limitless sky and a shoreless ocean, an ever-blazing flame, an eternally gleaming light, a wind when it gusts and when it is calm, a cloud when it thunders and lightnings...
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I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive… so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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We’re all going to die. Life is too short to have a stick up your ass.
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The translation of luminous experience and human connection to "divine" causality is unworthy of life's real beauty, power and meaning. Why make up superstitious drivel to explain beautiful consciousness when beauty and humanity are so spectacular...
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And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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We are not enough in love with our existence.
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In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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Celtic Knot maybe you think I do not know maybe you think I could not be surely I’m not where I go surely I am here with thee but maybe moon is nothing old maybe sun is never new perhaps all stories have been one maybe there’s no such...
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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You have to make the daring attempt to make yourself as big as you actually are, to catch up yourself. Widen your moral fantasy. Widen your sense of time. Don’t be a coward. Say to yourself upon awakening: ‘It is our business.’ The...
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Life is purposeful. Death is optional. God is technological. Love is essential.
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There is a science of life, but life itself is no science. We need to invent and give meaning to what we do and experience. It is an unavoidable feature of the human condition.
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All things are in transitory existence.
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What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do, not what I must know.
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Hope is the necessary, but insufficient, precondition for survival. As we grope our way up the hill, we will meet with many dead ends that cause us to descend a ways to see if another approach will take us to a higher peak hill-climbing only gets...
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies
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Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs forever to the past.
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You have to do whatever you can’t not do.