One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. - Abraham Maslow

Existentialism rests on phenomenology, i.e., it uses personal, subjective experience as the foundation upon which abstract knowledge is built.

"Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be "cool"."

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.