Existential Quotes

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

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

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the greatest existential threat to U.S. interests.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.

We may not know where we are or where we are going, but we have to go.

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

..Breaking yet budding, dying yet living - standingamongst ruins and rage, reaching for possibilitiesplaying hard to get.

Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.

You think it’s a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.

There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.