our situation reminded me of a fable I had read somewhere. Chased by a tiger, a man slips and falls over the edge of a mountain. As he falls, he manages to grab a bush growing by the side of the mountain and hangs on to it for dear life. The bush is laden with...

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals.” (1949)

အႏုပညာသမားေပါ့.. စိတ္ကိုသိမ္ေမြ႔ ယဥ္ေက်းေစရံုမက အထီးတည္းႏိုင္ေစေသာ၊ သူတကာႏွင့္ မေရာႏိုင္ေစေသာ၊ တစ္ေယာက္ထည္း ဖယ္ခြာထြက္လာေစေသာ ထိုအရာသည္ ေဝဒနာခံစားရာ၌ ျပင္းျပေစဦးမည္။ အေကာင္းကိုခ်ည္း အလွကိုခ်ည္း ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းေစဦးမည္။ ခြင့္လႊတ္ခက္ခဲေသာ သေဘာထားေစမည္။ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္တတ္ေစဦးမည္။

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies – to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them – brings with...

Life’s easy.It’s living it that’s difficult.

(…) provou que (o prazer) é um presente da divindade, ‘pois – dizia – o homem não pode dar a si próprio nem sensações nem ideias, recebe tudo; a dor e o prazer lhe vêm de fora, como sua existência’.

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory….everything is forgotten, even a great love. That’s what’s sad about life, and also what’s wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That’s why it’s good...

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose – even for transforming murderers into judges.

Afternoon experience: autographing exposed legs, outstretched in lines like matchsticks. Afternoon epiphany: Those with smooth, hairless legs would soon lose all evidence of my contact when the sweat causes the ink from the marker to run. I am ephemeral. Skepticism would be the reaction to those with thick leg hair, as their curls frazzle the...

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

perempuan dianggap dalam. kenapa? karena orang tidak akan menemukan dasar pada mereka. perempuan bahkan tidak dangkal

Para Sartre a existência precede a essência, no sentido de que existir precede isso que nós somos; e que somos o que nós mesmos escolhemos ser.

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only...

I’d been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might hold him in the race of mankind; he had had two friends, one of whom had died senselessly before he was known, the other of whom had now withdrawn so distantly...

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

the sky here’s very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it’s a solid thing up there, protecting us from what’s behind . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.

[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply ‘do what you like, I’m just here for you’, but it…is, or can be, very manipulative. It is a way of getting the other person to exercise all his or her efforts towards pleasing you,...

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He tooconcludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neithersterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that...

You know, everything’s a sort of lie, and then you die.

We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

cinta mengungkapkan kualitaskualitas besar dan tersembunyi dari pencintanya–apa yang langka dan merupakan perkecualian dari dirinya: dalam artian bahwa cinta menyembunyikan apa yang biasabiasa saja

This existenitalist stuff sure is crap

Nothingness haunts Being.

İnsanın kendi yüzünü anlayabilmesi belki de elinde değil. Belki de tek başıma yaşadığım için böyle oluyor. Topluluk içinde yaşayanlar, kendilerini, arkadaşlarına nasıl görünüyorlarsa aynalarda tıpkı öyle görmeyi öğrenmişlerdir. Benim arkadaşım yok. Tenimin bunca çıplak olması acaba bu yüzden mi? Buna insansız… evet insansız doğa denilebilir.

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!One thing at least is certain – This Life flies;One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Te leven betekent strikt genomen niets anders dan dag voor dag zelfmoord op te schuiven.

To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going on one’s knees and thanking Him.

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self…. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I...

There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether...

This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day will soon end and I already wish it gone, there are men who have entrusted all their hopes to it, all their love and their last efforts. There are dying men or others...

The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all teeth were but ready they would not need even to bite, the bones would crack themselves and the marrow would...

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

tingkat dan sifat seksualitas seseorang meluas sampai puncak semangatnya

Sometimes I couldn’t figure it out, what all the living was for.

There wasn’t a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the...

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ႐ိုးေျဖာင့္ခ်င္သူမွ်သာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္သက္ သေဘာက်သလိုသာ သူမ်ားကို မထိပါးေစဘဲ ေနခ်င္ပါတယ္။

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought,...

Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is; I will always find a way to enjoy myself; even in the mist of circumstances; because problems is a sense...

Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rotted viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment. Being in love is nothing, it’s sticking together that’s difficult. Faeces on the other hand make no attempt to endure or to grow. On this score we are far more unfortunate than shit: our frenzy to persist in...

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma Ramotswe could ascertain, lived in France. These French people said that you should just live in a way which made...

Pe cine nu mai cheamă, pe acela îl uită cu desăv rșire. N-am vrut să vorbesc despre asta de față cu Frieda. Dar nu e numai uitare, e mai mult dec t at t. Căci pe cine ai uitat, poți să-l cunoști din nou. În cazul lui Klamm asta nu e posibil. Pe cine nu...

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