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Existentialist Inspirational Quotes (359)

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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.
Martin Buber
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I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Perception is naturally surpassed toward action better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an always future hollow, for we are always future to ourselves.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
Martin Buber
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We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world we should love them too.
Martin Buber
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As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
Martin Buber
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world you want to blow it up.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.
Martin Buber
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I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven
Martin Buber
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
Martin Buber
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The law is not thrust upon man it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin Buber
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Before you come alive, life is nothing it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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