Quotes by Existential Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity. Ray Brassier existential nihilism opportunity 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. Robert A. Heinlein existential accepting want There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Roger Ebert impending-death boredom existential The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free. Rollo May existential purpose people Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. Rollo May existential becoming nihilism In every nowhere town Ron Sexsmith existential towns dream No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. Simone de Beauvoir fulfilled existence existential Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. Simone de Beauvoir love-life existential thinking The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. Simone de Beauvoir eternal-life eternal existential Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours. Simone de Beauvoir arbitrary existential destiny There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him. Simone de Beauvoir slave existential doe Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. Stephen A. Diamond existential violence behavior "Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. Stephanie Zacharek leaks existential firsts 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. Stephen Hawking existential space earth People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. Terence McKenna neurosis existential people Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror. Tim Winton existential horror pay Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues? Tom T. Hall montana existential philosophy 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. Torbjorn Tannsjo existential humanity faces [Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing. Van Morrison type existential philosophy 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. Vera Nazarian existential common ordinary «12345»