Existential Quotes - Page 2

• No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shepherds, Different, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.86, Penguin

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• The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Existentialism, Individual, Claims

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• My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

  Peggy Noonan

  Religious, Marijuana, Choices

  Peggy Noonan (1995). “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, Adams Media Corp

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• I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts. Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them.

  Chris Cornell

  Letting Go, Art, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

  Archie Shepp

  Culture, Jazz

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• I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

  Steven Wright

  Life, Witty, Humorous

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• I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

  Meg Ryan

  Good Life, Existential Angst, Complaining

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• The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Information, Gone

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  R. D. Laing

  Break Through, Diversity, May

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 6

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• I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

  Thomas Lynch

  People, Mourning, Funeral

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• I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

  Sean Lennon

  Thinking, Trying, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  Archie Shepp

  Ideas, Musical, Culture

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• There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Philosophy, Decision, Joining

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.396, A&C Black

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• The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

  Rose Tremain

  Panic, Rewriting, Existentialism

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• Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Teacher, Views, Hygiene

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• In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence
  — as not-bound to life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Risk, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Long, Philosopher

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a
  theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Drawing

  "Viva Che!: Contributions in Tribute to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara". Book by Marianne Sinclair, 1968.

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• Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Choices, Path

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1943.

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• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Birthday, Philosophy, Class

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• Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Imagination, Realizing, Consciousness

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• The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Time, Real

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• Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
  toward himself to recover his inner being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Horizon, Looks

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Motivation, Roots

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.14, Random House

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• She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Atheist, Philosophical, Atheism

  "The Words". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964.

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