#existent

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. ↗

— David Ives

#always #existential #family #intense #intense love

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. ↗

— John Ruskin

#art #because #call #existent #false

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#knowledge #life #philosophy #life

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #life #pondering #humor

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules ↗

— Albert Camus

#morality #ethics

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#metaphysics #metaphysics

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. ↗

— Rollo May

#love #love

I rebel; therefore I exist. ↗

— Albert Camus

#rebel #existentialism

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. ↗