Quotations: Existentialism

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychic, or economic destiny defines the figure that the human female assumes within society.

• On Essence and existence, their position: Existentialism100%
• On Social identity, their position: Social construction90%

There is freedom only as engaged, willing itself by willing the disclosure of being through a world.

• On Freedom of the will, their position: Free will85%

There is no such thing as a natural death.

• On Death, their position: Refusing death70%

Consciousness is a being such that in its being its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself: it is never what it is and is what it is not.

• On Nature of the self, their position: Narrativism75%

Existentialism is nothing else but an attempt to draw all the consequences of a coherent atheist position.

• On Existence of God, their position: Atheism100%

I cannot take my freedom as an end unless I take that of others equally as an end.

• On Self-interest and others, their position: Altruism70%

Man first exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world, and defines himself afterward. If man as the existentialist conceives him is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself.

• On Essence and existence, their position: Existentialism100%

Man is a useless passion.

• On Tonality of reality, their position: Tragic thought85%

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet nonetheless free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

• On Freedom of the will, their position: Free will95%

Man is nothing other than the series of his acts, he is nothing other than his life.

• On Interiority, their position: Primacy of action70%

There can be no truth other, at the starting point, than this: I think, therefore I am; that is the absolute truth of consciousness attaining itself.

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Dogmatism60%

Whatever the things I want, there will always be this possibility that things come about otherwise than I want: one must act without hope.

• On Hope, their position: Lucidity without hope80%

When we say that man chooses himself, we mean that each of us chooses himself, but by that we also mean that in choosing himself he chooses all men.

• On Status of norms (metaethics), their position: Constructivism80%