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 puni...
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.
We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.
Existence is tedious, anyway.
In the digital world, nothing truly exist unless it exist in at least two places.
Without awareness, we are not truly alive.
...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes mas...
(About Sartre...)His death does not separate us. My death will not bring us together again. That is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long.
How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?
As people move through life, passing from the hopeful ignorance of youth into sobering adulthood, they inevitably face an increasingly nagging question: Is this all there is? Childhood can be painful,...
Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life ha...
One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't want to go on living. Now I happen to own this rifle, which I loaded, believe it or not, and...
There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
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.
I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.