Quotes About Meaning

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?