Quotes on Existential

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the doctrines of a Buddhist orthodoxy. Individuation is a process of recovering personal authority through freeing ourselves from the constraints of collectively held belief systems.

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.