Existentialist famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

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Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.
-- Rudolf Bultmann

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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
-- Wislawa Szymborska

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Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.
-- Catherine Camus

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[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!
-- Catherine Camus

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Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!
Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're interesting!"
We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.
There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.
MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, â€œIâ€™m going to be your surgeon? Iâ€™m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?â€ Make statements, with your actions and your voice.