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4. “To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.”
T.S. Eliot
Supernatural, Reality, Belief, Spiritual Perspective, Existential Philosophy, Religious Insight
6. “This keeping oneself alive, out of a blind urge to defeat death, is in itself a means of sowing death. Every one who has not fully accepted life, who is not incrementing life, is helping to fill the world with death.” Henry Miller Life Acceptance, Defeat Death, Existential Philosophy, Vitality, Fear, Self-awareness
7. “The book is sustained on its own axis by the pure flux and rotation of events. Just as there is no central point, so also there is no question of heroism or of struggle since there is no question of will, but only an obedience to flow.” Henry Miller Life’s Flow, Existential Philosophy, Event-driven Life, Philosophy, Chaos, Willpower
13. “The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.” Albert Camus Absurdity And Meaning, Existential Philosophy, Human Reflection, Absurdity, Meaning, Philosophy
14. “Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.” Albert Camus Rebellion And Suffering, Existential Philosophy, Human Condition, Rebellion, Suffering, Philosophy
16. “If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of a completely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.” Albert Camus History And Reason, Human Condition, Existential Philosophy, History, Reason, Condition
19. “Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.” Albert Camus Truth And Liberty, Existential Philosophy, Personal Struggle, Truth, Liberty, Philosophy
23. “The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one’s head against a wall.” Albert Camus Ancient Beliefs, Nature Rebellion, Existential Philosophy, Nature, Rebellion, Belief
27. “I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren’t true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.” Charles Bukowski Religious Skepticism, Life Choices, Existential Philosophy, Human Folly, Critical Thinking, Mortality
28. “It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” Simone de Beauvoir Aging And Death, Life’s Contrasts, Personal Reflections, Existential Philosophy, Time And Mortality, Life’s Parody
Existential Philosophy Quotes by Famous Authors
4. “To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.”
T.S. Eliot Supernatural, Reality, Belief, Spiritual Perspective, Existential Philosophy, Religious Insight
6. “This keeping oneself alive, out of a blind urge to defeat death, is in itself a means of sowing death. Every one who has not fully accepted life, who is not incrementing life, is helping to fill the world with death.”
Henry Miller Life Acceptance, Defeat Death, Existential Philosophy, Vitality, Fear, Self-awareness
7. “The book is sustained on its own axis by the pure flux and rotation of events. Just as there is no central point, so also there is no question of heroism or of struggle since there is no question of will, but only an obedience to flow.”
Henry Miller Life’s Flow, Existential Philosophy, Event-driven Life, Philosophy, Chaos, Willpower
13. “The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.”
Albert Camus Absurdity And Meaning, Existential Philosophy, Human Reflection, Absurdity, Meaning, Philosophy
14. “Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.”
Albert Camus Rebellion And Suffering, Existential Philosophy, Human Condition, Rebellion, Suffering, Philosophy
16. “If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of a completely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.”
Albert Camus History And Reason, Human Condition, Existential Philosophy, History, Reason, Condition
19. “Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.”
Albert Camus Truth And Liberty, Existential Philosophy, Personal Struggle, Truth, Liberty, Philosophy
23. “The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one’s head against a wall.”
Albert Camus Ancient Beliefs, Nature Rebellion, Existential Philosophy, Nature, Rebellion, Belief
27. “I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren’t true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.”
Charles Bukowski Religious Skepticism, Life Choices, Existential Philosophy, Human Folly, Critical Thinking, Mortality
28. “It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”
Simone de Beauvoir Aging And Death, Life’s Contrasts, Personal Reflections, Existential Philosophy, Time And Mortality, Life’s Parody
