Quotes About Meaning

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.