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My happiness should justify existence itself!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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It is valid to conclude from actuality to possibility, but not from possibility to actuality.”
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Existence precedes essence.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existentialism and Humanism
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson
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The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.”
Voltaire
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Les cabales
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.”
Gottfried Leibniz
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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The Second Sex
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We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.”
Bertrand Russell
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Human nature
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
Theodor W. Adorno
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”
Milan Kundera
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Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing less than his life.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existentialism and Humanism
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