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.
Rollo MayTags: art beauty existentialism
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 it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.
Stephen A. DiamondTags: existentialism daimonic
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
Paul TillichTags: doubt faith existentialism
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: war existentialism
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: death existentialism aloneness
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: existentialism student teacher
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Rollo MayTags: science myth existentialism
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: ambiguity existentialism philosophers
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: existentialism
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
Ernest BeckerTags: religion existentialism
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