4 Quotes by Gordon Marino

We pay someone to mow our backyards and spend hours searching the internet to find the best deal for our next vacation. What’s our problem?

all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that, first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself.... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Whereas a table is a table is a table, humans have no preexisting essence and so define themselves,

I was born here and I'll die here against my will.