ex·is·ten·tial·ism  [eg-zi-sten-shuh-liz-uhm, ek-si-] noun

a philosophical attitude that stresses the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices.

February 27, 2012

London Town, England
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious, whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought. From moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
[ Edgar Allan Poe ]