Quotes About Existence

The transitoriness of our existence in no way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibility; for now everything hinges upon our realizing the transitory possibilities.

U]ltimately it is not up to man to ask about the meaning of his life. Instead, man must be understood as someone who is asked; that is, life itself asks him, and he has to answer—his existence has to respond.

Ä°nsan?n gerçekte ihtiyac? olan, gerilimin olmad??? bir durum deÄŸil kayda deÄŸer bir hedef, özgürce seçilmiÅŸ bir görev uÄŸruna uÄŸraÅŸ ve mücadeledir. Ä°htiyaç duyduÄŸu ÅŸey, ne pahas?na olursa olsun gerilimden kurtulmak deÄŸil, onun taraf?ndan kar??lanmay? bekleyen potansiyel bir anlam?n çaÄŸr?s?d?r.

Meaning is missing in the world as described by many a science. This, however, does not imply that the world is void of meaning but only that many a science is blind to it. Meaning is scotomized by many a science.

Ä°ddia ediyorum ki dünyada en kötü koÅŸullarda bile hayatta kalabilmek için hayat?n bir anlam? olduÄŸu bilgisinden daha etkili olabilecek bir ÅŸey yoktur. Nietzchhe`nin ÅŸu sözleri çok ÅŸey söyler: YaÅŸamak için bir nedeni olan her türlü nas?l`a katlanabilir.

Pleasure in itself cannot give our existence meaning; thus the lack of pleasure cannot take away meaning from life, which now seems obvious to us.

Due to the essentially self-transcendent quality of human existence man is a being reaching out beyond himself.

But the whole of life stands in the face of death, and if this man had been right then all our lives would be meaningless, were we only to strive for pleasure and nothing else – preferably the most pleasure and the highest degree of pleasure possible. Pleasure in itself cannot give our existence meaning; thus the lack of pleasure cannot take away meaning from life, which already seems obvious to us.

It is a tenet of Logotherapy that transcendence is the essence of existence. What is meant by this tenet is that existence is authentic only to the extent to which it points to something that is not itself. [...] Man [...] finds himself only to the extent to which he loses himself in the first place, be it for the sake of something or somebody, for the sake of a cause or a fellow-man, or "for God's sake.

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.

Whenever there was an opportunity for it, one had to give them a why—an aim—for their lives, in order to strengthen them to bear the terrible how of their existence. Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost. The typical reply with which such a man rejected all encouraging arguments was, "I have nothing to expect from life any more." What sort of answer can one give to that?

78% said their first goal was finding a purpose and meaning to my life.

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

To have a good conscience can never be the basis of a morally good existence; it is, rather, the result.

Modern man needs to be considered as more than a psycho-physical reality. His spiritual existence cannot be neglected. He is not a mere organism. He is a person.

Tình yêu không ch? g?n li?n vá»›i sá»± hi?n h?u c?a th? xác. Tình yêu tìm th?y ý nghÄ©a sâu s?c nh?t trong tâm trí, trong chính ná»™i tâm c?a con ng??i. Cho dù ng??i ?y có thá»±c sá»± t?n t?i, có còn s?ng hay không cÅ©ng không quan tr?ng.

ng??i ta có th? l?y Ä'i c?a má»™t ng??i m?i th?, ch? tr? má»™t Ä'i?u: sá»± tá»± do - sá»± tá»± do trong vi?c lá»±a ch?n thái Ä'á»™ s?ng trong b?t k? hoàn c?nh nào, và sá»± tá»± do lá»±a ch?n hÆ°á»›ng Ä'i c?a mình.

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

The third aspect of the tragic triad concerns death. But it concerns life as well, for at any time each of the moments of which life consists is dying, and that moment will never recur. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder that challenges us to make the best possible use of each moment of our lives?

Armastus on ülim eesmärk, milleni inimene võib jõuda.

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

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.