Quotes About Meaning

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

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

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.