February 2012
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“A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of...”
– Albert Einstein, Principles of Research (1918)
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“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life...”
– Joseph Conrad
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“You improve them, my boy! Can’t you see that yourself? You stimulate them!...”
– The Dragon (Grendel by John Garder)
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“But is it enough, that’s what tortures me, is it enough?”
– Waiting for Godot — Act 1 by Samuel Beckett
“In the end, nothing else differentiates me from the people among whom I pass my...”
– Jean Amery- At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities.
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“…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
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“The world outside would be easier to live in if we were all machines.”
– Andy Warhol
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
– Francis Bacon (via absurdlakefront)
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying...
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis (via human-voices)
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“Later — when things happened that they could never have imagined — she wrote him...”
– The History Of Love (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
– Cormac McCarthy; No Country for Old Men (via wordpainting)
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to...”
– Thomas Merton
“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade to the...”
– Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay. (via nekroterrorist)
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The Top 10 Existential Movies of All Time →
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“A trace is the apparition of a distance, however close that which it evokes may...”
– Walter Benjamin, fragment from the Arcades Project
“We are protected from so much pain. For example: graves.
The earth’s roots and...”
– For Example, A Flower by Arkaye Kierulf (via leda-swanson)
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“The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things...”
– Albert Camus
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“The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned...”
– Milan Kundera (via fuckyeahemergence)
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann
“Let all be simple. Let all stand still
Without a final direction.
That which...”
– Charles Simic, from “Evening” (via awritersruminations)
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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via human-voices)
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the...”
– Alan Watts (via human-voices)
“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m...”
– Sartre (via odettenoire)
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FYExistentialism Playlist →
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“I loved them, according to the hallowed expression, which amounts to saying that...”
– Albert Camus (via phredosophy)
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“The famous ‘going beyond’ Marxism in an idealistic and humanitarian direction is...”
– Albert Camus, The Self-Deception of the Socialist (via fuckyeahemergence)