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.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

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

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

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

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.

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.