Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“And yes, given our circumstances, in this post-enlightenment era of post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry; as meaningless non-entities in a disenchanted… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“In video games you sometimes run into what they call a side quest, and if you don't manage to figure it out… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course,… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to… — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
