Quotes About Meaning

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.