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Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

“These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.”

Men Way Moments Impossible Tasks Meaning Of Life Existential Search For Meaning Meaning Life Mans Search For Meaning

Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.”

Knows Want Made Accepting Figures Okay What You Want Made It Existential

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.”

Life Mind My Own Source Ultimate Peace Of Mind Existential

Author:Dalai Lama

“Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.”

Matter Spirit Evil Fate Crisis Free Will Existential

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.”

Years Kind Strong Felt Blood Youth Goes On Horror Crisis Endless This Life Existential Veins

Book:Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“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.”

Can Do Emotion Gone Information Television Pages Commitment Active Existentialism Existential Involvement Printed

Author:Bill Moyers

“The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.”

Shows Comedy Style Office Percent Cameras Great Things Existentialism Existential Workplace Documentaries Angst Being Single Existential Angst

Author:Rainn Wilson

“Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.”

World Bigs Purpose Found Attitude Identity Crisis Emptiness Existentialism Existential Oysters Identity Crisis

Author:Ray Romano

“I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.”

Thinking Knows Years I Can Two Kids Answers Worry Cry Emotional Raised Finals Meaningful Existentialism Existential

Author:Ellen Barkin

“I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Culture Right Now Universal Crisis Existentialism Existential Existential Crisis

Author:Mike White

“I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis”

Way Feelings Universe House Walks Guilt Honestly Guilty Existentialism Existential Julia

Author:Alfred Dreyfus

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

Philosophy Decision Path Existentialism Existential Joining Anthropology

Book:The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

Source: The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

“The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.”

Thinking Threat Existentialism Existential Cyber

Author:Michael Mullen

“The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.”

States Next Sound Term United United States Threat Graves Officials Existentialism Bells Existential Pearls Frequency Harbors Alarms Menace Invoke Cybercrime

Author:Preet Bharara

“Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.”

Play Intense Existentialism Existential Love Relationship Family Relationship Intense Love Respectful Relationships

Author:David Ives

“So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.”

Ifs Way Threat Climate Climate Change Denial Existentialism Existential Coping Good Way Toasts Climate Change Denial

Author:Bob Inglis

“It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.”

Ifs Knows Matter Know How Indifference Significance Existential Oysters Snail Shrimp Clams

Book:Being and Nothingness

Source: Being and Nothingness

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

Individual Claims Existentialism Existential Dissent

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.”

Thinking Mind Art Reality Song Focus Calm Enterprise Significance Existential Spinning Good Lyric

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.”

Too Much Calm Existential

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Most people are other people.”

People Existential

Author:Oscar Wilde

“To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.”

Force Difficult Understanding Levels Accepting Struggle Intellect Disaster Awful Our Time Guts Mortality Destroying Elites Existential Ecosystems Devastation

Author:Chris Hedges

“Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.”

Ends Earth Space Surface Behave Imaginary Existential

Author:Stephen Hawking

“When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.”

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”

World Life Believe Made Whole Powerful Terrible Humorous Mad Witty Whole World Existentialism Existential Enigma Mystery Of Life Pendulums Semiotics

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.”

Art Reality Distinction Existential

Author:Margaret Wertheim

“A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.”

Children Use Christ Poor Poverty Sick Humble Flesh Touching Existential Theoretical Periphery

Author:Pope Francis

“Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.”

Want Mean Spiritual Social Levels Path Perception Clarity Spheres Existential Spiritual Path

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have.”

Made Enough Beautiful Remember Winning Powerful Succeed Winner Most Powerful Existential Thirst Can't Win

Author:Will Smith

“Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.”

Self Loses Week Self Worth Oneness Slips Existential

Author:Bo Burnham

“I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.”

Stuff Interesting Humanism Biology Existential

Author:Dana Carvey

“I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.”

Feels Universe Next Wake Up Existential Next Day

Author:Lily Tomlin

“Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.”

People Has Beens Fantasy Rocks Survival Crisis Western Versions Live Life Rock N Roll Existential Rock And Roll Oblivion Posing Existential Crisis

Author:Billy Corgan

“Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.”

Way Years Has Beens Reality Might Past Purpose Black White Journey Photograph Psychological Abstract Forty Black And White Existential Defining Over The Past Defining Myself

Author:Roger Ballen

“Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.”

Entrepreneur Financial Existential

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.”

“What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?”

Ifs Want Giving Persons Form Purpose Hope Father Loses Progress Influence Materials Holy Difficulty Endure Arguing This Life Existential Tedious Clinging Without Hope Meaning Life

Author:Raymond J. de Souza

“The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.”

Important Issues Influence Emotional Source Trump Guilt Cards Reform Outcomes Over It Ministry Existential Exploitation Participants One Sided Revolving

Book:Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China

Source: Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China

“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.”

Facts Form Order My Own Existence Risk Bounds Oneself Determined Objectives Existential My Own Life

Book:Being and Nothingness

Source: Being and Nothingness

“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.”

Men World Looks Sides Known Horizon Existential Breadth

Book:The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays

Source: The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays

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

Whole Realizing Imagination Consciousness Existential

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.”

Men World Suffering Struggle Essence Throwing Existential World Suffering

Book:The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre

Source: The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”

Men Has Beens Ends Action Choices Born Path Committed Thrown Existential

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”

Knows Men Believe Humans Facts Age Able I Believe Causes Human Beings Know How He Man Theory Revolution Battle Intellectual Drawing Admire Fighter Existential Personal Experiences

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.”

Knows Feels Dream Might Fear Understanding Black Missing Anxiety Empty Holes Crush Existential Our Dreams Black Hole Shrouds

Author:Jesse Browner

“Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles...In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a 'problem' where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma...The number of diet-related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972...The lucrative 'transfer of guilt' was resurrected just in time.”

“Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.”

Loss Seeing Recognition Resolution Lunch Existential

Book:Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.”

Facts Reality Earth Purpose Love Is Essentials Ultimate Existential Ultimate Reality

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.”

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