November 2011
26 posts
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
—Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“At the very moment he can grasp the non-temporal truth of his existence. But between the past that no longer is and the future that is not yet, this moment when he exists is nothing. This privilege, which he alone possesses, of being a sovereign and unique subject in a universe of objects, is what he shares with all his fellow-men.”
—Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
