7585 | Socrates emphasises that the knower is an existing individual, with existence his main task [Socrates, by Kierkegaard] |
22779 | The good is realised freedom [Hegel] |
21758 | Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
7579 | While big metaphysics is complete without ethics, personal philosophy emphasises ethics [Kierkegaard] |
7581 | Speculative philosophy loses the individual in a vast vision of humanity [Kierkegaard] |
2880 | The greatest possibilities in man are still unexhausted [Nietzsche] |
23718 | If we say birds of prey could become lambs, that makes them responsible for being birds of prey [Nietzsche] |
20111 | We could live more naturally, relishing the spectacle, and not thinking we are special [Nietzsche] |
7164 | Not feeling harnessed to a system of 'ends' is a wonderful feeling of freedom [Nietzsche] |
4489 | If faith is lost, people seek other authorities, in order to avoid the risk of willing personal goals [Nietzsche] |
20104 | Nietzsche tried to lead a thought-provoking life [Safranski on Nietzsche] |
20321 | The struggle for Existenz is between people who are equals, and are utterly honest [Jaspers] |
20318 | My helplessness in philosophising reveals my being, and begins its upsurge [Jaspers] |
20325 | Once we grasp freedom 'from' things, then freedom 'for' things becomes urgent [Jaspers] |
22166 | Dasein has the potential to be itself, but must be shown this in the midst of ordinariness [Heidegger] |
22229 | Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre] |
19619 | To live authentically, we must see that philosophy is totally useless [Cioran] |
19634 | Man is never himself; he always aims at less than life, or more than life [Cioran] |
20765 | Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
6691 | It is more plausible to say people can choose between values, than that they can create them [Graham] |
6867 | Existentialism focuses on freedom and self-making, and insertion into the world [Le Poidevin] |
21898 | For existentialists the present is empty without the pull of the future and weight of the past [May] |