Existentialism 1/22-1/25a

Activity:  Review the following existential quotes with a classmate.  Discuss the "existential" implications and examine your own personal thoughts and opinions regarding these ideas. 

1 pg essay due:  Friday 1/25

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion 

 

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke 

 

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
― Umberto Eco

 

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett