Existential Quotes

What we tend to read in the newspaper is that this is a political conflict... But it has become an existential conflict about Israel's right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state. - Robert Gross

We isolate with every step, brick our exits, and seek deeper inside our soul for the boundary of existentialism, the essence... - Mariana Fulger

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. - Paul Ricoeur

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. - Friedrich Durrenmatt

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. - Rose Tremain

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone. - Bill Moyers

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . - Walter Lippmann

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. - Jean-Paul Sartre