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The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age QUOTES

The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age QUOTES

1 " We pay someone to mow our backyards and spend hours searching the internet to find the best deal for our next vacation. What’s our problem? "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

2 " When you have the auriferous sunlight, bask in it, grow, take risks, be creative, dance above the abyss of your own impending death. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

3 " human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation’s relating itself to itself in the relation. For those who do not immediately pitch the book across the room, Kierkegaard continues, “A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

4 " Kierkegaard professed that when it comes to the spiritual life and to love we see best when our eyes are tightly shut and we are blind to the differences between ourselves and our neighbor. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

5 " We need the love of others to love ourselves, but in order to be nurtured by the love of others, we need to love ourselves sufficiently to accept that love. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

6 " being free of the task of fending off other people’s stereotypes is at the core of “white privilege. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

7 " Pharmaceutical companies were not content to hawk medications; they were also marketing psychological disorders themselves "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

8 " Pharmaceutical companies were not content to hawk medications; they were also marketing psychological disorders themselves. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

9 " Anxiety is about the future, and, because of this, it impedes our ability to live in the moment. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

10 " The self is a relation that relates itself to itself. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

11 " Nietzsche emphasizes the urgent importance of being able to get into the ring with your fears. After all, if you can’t take a hit, much less absorb the fear of taking a hit, then there is no way around it: you are going to be morally challenged. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

12 " We need to resist becoming moral stamp collectors. We need to be strong enough to let things go. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

13 " Socrates believed that philosophy, rather than an art of living, was a practice in dying, a lifelong practice in separating yourself from the senses and emotions that he thought obscured the sidereal light of reason. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

14 " Dasein is cast into existence with distinct abilities and in a nexus of culture and history. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

15 " For Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger, we are a witch’s brew of culture, feelings, experiences, and evaluations, and we create ourselves out of this mélange, as though our lives were an artwork. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

16 " Going back to the pre-Socratics (and still much alive in the dialogues of Plato), there has been an ongoing debate among the lovers of wisdom as to whether wisdom is best transmitted in the form of mythos, stories and poems, or in the form of logos, explanations and reason. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

17 " Camus describes life as a collision between human beings who have an innate craving for meaning and a universe that is as indifferent as rock, utterly devoid of meaning. No matter, Camus counsels that we should put the revolver back in the drawer. Consciousness of absurdity is worth the candle, for as Camus pronounces, “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn” or laughter. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

18 " Thinking from within the coordinates of my own existence earmarks the existential point of view. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

19 " whether wisdom is best transmitted in the form of mythos, stories and poems, or in the form of logos, explanations and reason. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

20 " there is no argument from Kierkegaard for faith. In fact, he warns that offering a defense of faith is a sin against faith, akin to offering a brief to prove that you love your spouse. "

― Gordon Marino , The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age