October 2010
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and...
– Viktor E. Frankl (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Nature requires us not only to be able to work well, but also to idle well.
– Aristotle, quoted by Richard R. Powell, Wabi Sabi Simple, pg124
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via aplacecalledfreedom)
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one
– Heidegger (German philosopher) 1889 – 1976 (via umalik) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to...
– Viktor Frankl (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its...
– Heidegger (via johncagecale) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
– Virginia Woolf (via yama-bato)
In dread we are “in suspense”. Or, to put it more precisely, dread holds us in...
– Martin Heidegger, ‘What is Metaphysics?’ (trans. R. F. C. Hull & A. Clark) in Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (ed. W. Kaufman), 2004, Plume, 249 (via tracesoftraces) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free...
– Martin Heidegger (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via mikelovesyou) (via lazergazerz) (via heartmindspirit) (via sharanam) (via yama-bato)
A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly...
– Isaac Asimov (via jayasuartika)
I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
– Auguste Renoir (via yama-bato)