Conceiving Quote by Simone Weil

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

— Albert Camus

No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim

“Man's only hope lies in "final redemption from the misery of volition and existence into the painlessness of non-being and non-willing." No mortal may…

— Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in…

— Erich Fromm

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

— Nicholas of Cusa

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

— George Gaylord Simpson

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

— Rajneesh

“When we feel life escapes us and we don’t recognize ourselves anymore, we do well to build a safe haven in our frame of…

— Erik Pevernagie

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's…

— William James