The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived..

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last..

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures..

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is..

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some….

Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an e….

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now….

We exist within the question of God..

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life..

Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothing….

Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, final….

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit..