Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or societ...y.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and ...female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the... practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who inter...est me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not e...xist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that fai...th is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficulties ...vanish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill hav...e believed, i.e., have said that they believed ... then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ours...elves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »