Fight Club Quotes

My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.” (Brainy Quote). This idea that he putting forward is that people aren’t actually happy with anything. Life just leads you to a dead end and there isn’t any true satisfaction and gratification before one dies. The reason is because if one lives an aesthetic life, they will never obtain all of the material items or money they desire, and if they live an ideal ethical life they will compromise some happiness with the effort of being a “good” person or a “model citizen”, neither life choice is authentic. “We cannot achieve certainty in the making of such decisions” (Existentialism, Irvine).
Another side of this, however, is that people are happy or
Because of that, people are technically fully in charge of their own happiness and if they will be successful or not. Who someone is or isn’t should not be determined by one’s surroundings, rather by the choices they make and who they want to be. Fight Club, an american classic, is all about choices and being unhappy with oneself. The main character isn’t out of the norm for where he is in life and is definitely not in a rough place but is still miserably unhappy. Existentialism states that happiness is not achieved through material items or possessions, but comparatively through authenticity and freedom (Allaboutphilosophy.org). Jack, the main character of Fight Club, realizes this after years of misery and makes a lifestyle change to achieve his goal of happiness by implementing his freedoms on life. He starts a “fight club” and organizes men to make the changes he wants to make. They follow a more authentic lifestyle by destroying the norms and boundaries society has placed on them and the community. They express their freedoms as a person and that they have no boundaries that society is trying to deposit on them, ‘...freedom is not defined by an ability to act; freedom is rather to be understood as a characteristic of the nature of consciousness, i.e. as spontaneity’ (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Although they are striving and fighting for something different the are still not quite authentic according to the philosophy of existentialism because they are following each other’s paths and not their own unique one. Along with that, one cannot have a good and virtuous life full of accomplishments if there is not a sufficient amount of suffering and hardships, which these men that belong to fight club know all about because of the strenuous challenges they faced to qualify for the