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great existential thinkers on....

the Greeks:

"with tragedy the Greeks had given up the belief in immortality: not only the belief in an ideal past, but also the belief in an ideal future"
-Nietzsche (The Birth of Tragedy)

"it is, like, a wierd Greek name. like Douglas"
-Paris Hilton (in her depostion, being asked the last name of her companion)

Writing:

"i am not a poet, and i go at things only dialectically"
-Soren Kierkegaard (Fear and Trembling)

"whatever i write in email, it doesn't mean anything. it is just words i write"
-Paris Hilton (legal deposition)

Friendship:

"we were friends and have grown distant from one another. but it is right that should be so; let us not dissemble and obscure it, as if it were something to be ashamed of. we are two ships, each of which has its destination and its course."
-Nietzsche (The Gay Science)

"i meet so many people. i don't even know some of my friends' names."
-Paris Hilton (legal depostion)

Other Maxims & Reflections:

"if the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world"
-Schopenhauer (Essays and Aphorisms)

"i'm so hungry"
-Paris Hilton (uttering in the middle of her deposition)