“When all is said and done, this Existentialist precept resonates with me more than any other philosophy of life I know. The idea that life’s meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“One use of the argument from analogy is found in response to the question of what or who created the universe. Some have argued that because the universe is like a clock, there must be a Clockmaker. As the eighteenthcentury British empiricist David Hume pointed out, this is a slippery argument, because there is nothing that is really perfectly analogous… — Daniel Klein Copy Share
“To my surprise, I find the most relevant commentary on a marriage that continues into the sunset years comes from the radical German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, in an atypically practical frame of mind, wrote, 'When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everthing… — Daniel Klein Copy Share
“Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“I am not looking for a thing ; I am searching for a spiritual experience .” — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that a man learns more by "playing" with ideas in his leisure time that by sitting in a classroom. And Plato's successor, that world champion of pleasure, Epicurus, believed in a simple yet elegant connection between learning… — Daniel Klein Copy Share
“Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.” — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“If a man cannot invest his life, or any part of it, with meaning, all he has left are distractions from meaninglessness, although few… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“there is no rest for the striver. Just beyond the completion of each goal on our life-achievement “bucket list” looms another goal, and then… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“Moses trudges down from Mt. Sinai, tablets in hand, and announces to the assembled multitudes: “I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“It’s a bit embarrassing to admit, but everything that happens happens for no real reason.” — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
