Existentialism

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as rationalism and empiricism, which sought to discover an ultimate order in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world.

The Stranger
Nausea
The Plague
The Metamorphosis
Existentialism is a Humanism
The Trial
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Fall (Vintage International)
Being and Nothingness
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
Man's Search for Meaning
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Waiting for Godot
Fear and Trembling
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Hermann Hesse
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Nietzsche

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