Quotes About Meaning

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

So yo then man what's your story?

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'