Existentialism Quotes

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

Rollo May

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Rollo May

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

Betty Friedan

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

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.

Albert Camus

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Albert Camus

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

David Eagleman

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

kegilaan adalah suatu yang langka dalam individu--tapi dalam kelompok, partai politik, negara, epos, ia adalah peraturan...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

Oscar Wilde

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

Andrei Tarkovsky

dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat

Friedrich Nietzsche

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Albert Camus

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Albert Camus

perempuan dianggap dalam. kenapa? karena orang tidak akan menemukan dasar pada mereka. perempuan bahkan tidak dangkal

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives. The fatality of his nature cannot be disentangled from the fatality of all that which has been and will be. He is not the result of a special design, a will, a purpose; he is not the subject of an attempt to attain an 'ideal of man' or an 'ideal of happiness' or an 'ideal of morality'--it is absurd to want to hand over his nature to some purpose or other. We invented the concept 'purpose': in reality purpose is lacking...One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is in the whole--there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, condemn the whole...

Friedrich Nietzsche

ketidaksukaan pada yang kotor dapat menjadi sedemikian besar sehingga hal itu akan mencegah kita membersihkan diri

Friedrich Nietzsche

saat cinta ataupun kebencia tidak berperan, tindaka perempuan akan biasabiasa saja

Friedrich Nietzsche

melalui musik, bahkan hasrat kita dapat meikmati dirinya sendiri

Friedrich Nietzsche