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Ambiguity is the fundamental quality of human existence.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
The only way to deal with the absurd is to embrace it.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
In the end, we are all just stories.
Machines have an infinite capacity for boredom.
Rebellion is the way of the human being.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
To will oneself free is to will oneself as a subject that transcends itself.
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
We must choose ourselves; once we have chosen we are responsible for ourselves.
I felt like I was disappearing.
From The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
We are all doomed. We are all doomed.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
From The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
The universe is a dark forest.
From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The past is always present, and the future is still to come.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
Artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape not just our economies but our societies and our very understanding of what it means to be human.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
From The Stranger by Albert Camus
Ambiguity is the very essence of the human condition.
The ambiguous nature of man reveals itself in the fact that he is both the subject and the object of his own action.
We are condemned to be free.
If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
The only way to deal with the future is to function in the present.
To be human is to be in relation.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
The search for God is ultimately a search for meaning.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Humans are a fleeting presence in the vast timeline of Earth.
From The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The sacred is the source of all meaning.
We are all just trying to make our way in the world.
There is no greater misfortune than dying alone.
The search for meaning is an endless journey.
The search for meaning is the essence of being human.
From God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
The ambiguity of our situation is what makes us human.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even understand it myself.
From The Trial by Franz Kafka
A man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
To act is to create a value.
All life is problem solving.
What would happen to the Earth if humans disappeared?
From The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
We must choose ourselves.
Life is a series of moments, a series of choices.
You can’t see the past; you can’t see the future.
The search for God is the search for meaning.
From God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
Hell is other people.
To will oneself free is to will oneself a task.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
The greatest problem of our time is the search for meaning.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
From The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
We are all free, and we are all responsible.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
There is no beautiful surface without a terrible depth.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
There are no simple answers to the great questions of life.
Rebellion is the struggle of being human.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
Everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything without it.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
The other is the condition of my freedom.
We are the first generation in the history of humanity that has the power to destroy our planet.
From The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
Belief is a choice, not a necessity.
We are the architects of our own extinction.
Mystery is more important than certainty.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
From The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The ambiguity of being is the source of all our dilemmas.
AI has the potential to reshape our understanding of what it means to be human.
If we fail to develop a friendly AI, the consequences could be catastrophic.
From Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
Man is a useless passion.
When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a giant insect.
From The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The quest for meaning is a quintessentially human endeavor.
From The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Being-in-the-world is a fundamental characteristic of Dasein.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Suffering is an inherent part of life.
From Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
There is no such thing as a purely rational act.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
The unexamined life is not worth living.
We are not human doings; we are human beings.
The one who is truly free is the one who is free to choose.
Authentic existence involves confronting our own mortality.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
From The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming—that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger, it would be easy to live.
From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
We must choose ourselves, as we are the ones responsible for our own existence.
There is no such thing as a guilty man.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
It’s a hard thing to go through life knowing that you’re going to die and not knowing how.
From The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
To be human is to be in search of meaning.
From The World's Religions by Huston Smith
The unexamined life is not worth living.
From The Republic of Plato by Allan Bloom
Freedom is not a given; it is something we must achieve.
In the pursuit of the divine, we find ourselves.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
From Dune by Frank Herbert
We’re all just a bunch of cells, and it’s all going to end up in the ground.
What would happen to the Earth if humans suddenly disappeared?
From The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
To will oneself free is to negate the other.
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
One must imagine Sisyphus as a happy man.
From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Choice is the essence of what it means to be human.
We are thrown into the world and must make sense of it.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.