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• From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

  Simone de Beauvoir
• In Plato, art is mystification because there is the heaven of Ideas; but in the earthly domain all glorification of the earth is true as soon as it is realized.let them accord value to one another in love and friendship, and the objects, the events, and the men immediately have this value; they have it absolutely.This justification, though open upon the entire universe through time and space, will always be finite.existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion.despite his limits, through them, it is up to each one to fulfill his existence as an absolute.the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite.If it came to be that each man did what he must, existence would be saved in each one without there being any need of dreaming of a paradise where all would be reconciled in death.

  Simone de Beauvoir
• Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of it’s own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.

  Colin Wilson
• One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one’s own doorstep was a shock.

  Alexander McCall Smith

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