Quotes About Philosophy

Et si la vie a un sens, il faut qu'il y ait un sens à la souffrance. La souffrance, comme le destin et la mort, fait partie de la vie. Sans la souffrance et la mort, la vie humaine demeure incomplète.

Friedrich Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how

We do not ask life what the meaning of life is. Life asks us, what is the meaning of your life. And life demands our answer.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

el sufrimiento humano actúa como un gas en una cámara vacía; el gas se expande por completo y regularmente por todo el interior, con independencia de la capacidad del recipiente. Análogamente, cualquier sufrimiento, fuerte o débil, ocupa la conciencia y el alma entera del hombre. De donde se deduce que el «tamaño» del sufrimiento humano es absolutamente relativo. Y a la inversa, la cosa más menuda puede generar las mayores alegrías.

man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

Vivir es sufrir, sobrevivir es hallarle sentido al sufrimiento.

I am convinced that in the final analysis, there is no situation that does not contain within it the seed of a meaning.

Having shown the beneficial impact of meaning orientation, I turn to the detrimental influence of that feeling of which so many patients complain today, namely the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the existential vacuum.

la vida no se trata de dar sentido, sino de encontrar sentido. La vida no es ningún test de Rorschach, sino un cuadro enigmático. El sentido de la vida no puede idearse, hay que descubrirlo.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

Viktor Frankl

The ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man.

Tudo pode ser tirado de uma pessoa, exceto uma coisa: a liberdade de escolher sua atitude em qualquer circunstância da vida.

The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.

Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my migrations like a basso continuo. This is what we are like, those of us who are nomads, who come out of the collapse of a settled way of life.

Here, too, the honorable finds its due and there are tears for passing things; here, too, things mortal touch the mind.

Happy he who was able to know the causes of things (felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas), and who trampled beneath his feet all fears, inexorable fate, and the roar of devouring hell.

sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem

Do you believe this is what the dead care about when they are buried in the grave?

Is death so dreadful a thing?

There they were," she went on, "the stars. And he asked himself, my great-grandfather — that boy: 'What are they? Why are they? And who am I?' as one does, sitting alone, with no one to talk to, looking at the stars.