Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself;…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.”

— Jack London

“Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to…

— Georg Simmel

“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..”

— Viktor Frankl

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“He felt there had to be ‘something’. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by…

— Ben Okri

“Man’s only justification for physical existence is to learn; this is his destiny which he cannot avoid under any circumstances.”

— Théun Mares

“But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still…

— G.K. Chesterton

“There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.”

— Libba Bray