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Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportu... by Ray Brassier

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 existentia... by Roger Ebert

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. by Rollo May

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

Rollo May
existential purpose people
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the res... by Rollo May

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Rollo May
existential becoming nihilism
In every nowhere town by Ron Sexsmith

In every nowhere town

Ron Sexsmith
existential towns dream
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. by Simone de Beauvoir

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... by Simone de Beauvoir

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 sta... by Terence McKenna

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. by Tim Winton

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

Tim Winton
existential horror pay
Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues? by Tom T. Hall

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
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