“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will… — King Solomon Son of David Copy Share Image
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to… — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre 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
“Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to… — T.H. White 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
“Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitterly cold winter, new life waits… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be prostrate,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that… — C.G. Jung 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
