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🏺 Philosophy
“Existence precedes essence.”
Sartres foundational existentialist principle that we exist before we define ourselves.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
“Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.”
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are and what we become through time”
“Man is condemned to be free.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
— Walt Whitman
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
— Dostoevsky
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
— Kierkegaard
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
— Erich Fromm
“I think, therefore I am.”
— Rene Descartes
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
