To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.