Other early existential philosophers, including Friedrich Nietzche and Fyodor Dostoevsky, wrote about creating one’s own ...

“I t is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in Being and Nothingness. It is as if he was reflecting on Arjuna’s confusion at the outset of the ...

The meaning of life is one of the world's biggest unanswered questions, and pondering existentialism—a way of thinking that focuses on what it means for people to exist—is something that ...