It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
For an individual animal, plant or man existence (to be or not to be) is of quite decisive importance; an individual man has not after all a conceptual existence
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