Quotes About Meaning

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.