On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Albert CamusTag: goodness ignorance existentialism camus the-plague
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 important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.
Kōbō AbeTag: life home news existentialism
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: wisdom writing existentialism
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Jules RenardTag: heaven existentialism paradise
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?
Cornelia FunkeTag: words books writing writers existentialism character cornelia-funke
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
Philip K. DickTag: future despair existentialism hopelessness
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
Albert CamusTag: profound existentialism meursault
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers towards their
source or plunged into forests, always making for other
cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and
I could never turn back any more than a record can spin
in reverse. And all that was leading me where ?
To this very moment...
Tag: existentialism nausea existentialist
This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
Raymond CarverTag: pessimism existentialism gazebo
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Matthew Woodring StoverTag: existentialism
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