“We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia.… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment… — British Humanist Association Copy Share Image
“A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“First and foremost, she recognizes that life has no single or ultimate meaning. Life only has human meanings of the following sort:… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“And if that’s the case—if we are our remembering selves—then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image