Existential Philosophy Quotes

#1. I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

Albert Camus

#2. Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Michael Leunig

#3. The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#4. Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

Winston Graham

#5. You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it.

Debasish Mridha

#6. 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.

Cornel West

#7. Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Tom T. Hall

#9. Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.

Timothy Findley

#10. 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

#11. The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

William James

#12. Laughter is the antidote to existential pain

S. Spencer Baker

#13. Life has existential suffering; we become happy by caring.

Debasish Mridha

#14. A pessimist is overwhelmed by the existential sufferings of life, he has no time to see the beauty and possibilities of life.

Debasish Mridha

#15. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. When life is an existential suffering, death is our ultimate blessings.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Jonathan Franzen