Famous quotes of famous existentialists:
"Hell is other people "
"God is dead"
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one"
"Without God, all is permitted"
"It (see group photo) restates the negativeness of the universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence, nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a...
more »Famous quotes of famous existentialists:
"Hell is other people "
"God is dead"
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one"
"Without God, all is permitted"
"It (see group photo) restates the negativeness of the universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence, nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void, with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless bleak straightjacket in a black absurd cosmos." (from the film "Play It Again, Sam")
"Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?"
Loose Definitons:
"If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be"
Existentialism is a philosophical theory, which emphasizes the absence of God inferring that life is meaningless as seen from God’s point of view and that with the invalidated concept of morality a man cannot tell good from bad and that he is fully responsible for what he is and therefore, has to find meaning for his existance through acts of will. In a nutshell, "Existence precedes essence".
Existentialism literature especially fiction gives a full rein to dread, anxiousness, boredom, nothingness, alienation and freedom with a sole purpose of making the world appear more absurd.
Some of the famous existentialists are Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Mulla Sadra, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Frank Kafka and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
There are also many other accomplished authors, such as Jean Genet, André Gide, André Malraux, Samuel Beckett, Knut Hamsun, and the Romanian friends Eugene Ionesco and Emil Cioran who are loosely or strongly associated with existentialism.
If you like to discuss existentialists, their works, their thoughts or their lives’ or put forward your own views about the subject the group is for you.
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