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"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth."
Schopenhauer as Educator

Bwahahaha this is my favorite TMBG song #Absurdism #Existentialism

It’s part of my Despair playlist🥰

"Rise and fall,
Turn the wheel,
That's all life is,
It's really just a circle."
- Big Head Todd and the Monsters, "Circle"

#Circle #Life #Wisdom #Truth #Cycles #BigHeadTodd #Being #Existence #Dasein #Existentialism #Absurdism

Now reading Sartre's second book in the Roads To Freedom.

The Reprieve.

8 days leading up to the Munich Agreement.

Lots of echoes to our current world situation.

(Btw. I loved Power and The Glory)

#existentialism #sartre #massmarketpaperback #vintagepaperback #booksky

There are philosophers who want to be right and philosophers who want to be useful. I want neither. I want to be true.

#existentialism #Nietzsche

“Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.”

#BookSky #Books #SelfHelp #Existentialism #Resilience

A man is measured not by what he worships but by what he refuses to bow to.

#existentialism #Nietzsche

“Keating felt naked...People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing.”

#BookSky #Books #Objectivism #Existentialism #Individualism

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

#BookSky #Books #Memoir #LiteraryCriticism #Existentialism

"It is difficult to be understood, especially when one thinks and lives otherwise."
Beyond Good and Evil §27

#existentialism #Nietzsche