Quotes About Meaning

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.

Even for Buddhist compassion, the individual is only a shadow that vanishes. The dignity of the individual is a Christian cast made out of Greek clay.

Leer a Nietzsche como respuesta es no entenderlo. Nietzsche es una interrogación inmensa.

Discipline is not so much a social necessity as an aesthetic obligation.

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us. From natural borders to natural religion.

Nichts was irgendeinem Wesen in irgendeiner Situation grundsätzlich möglich ist, ist von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung.

In order to avoid a manly confrontation with nothingness, man erects altars to progress.

Todo necesita justificar su existencia, salvo la obra de arte.

Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion's case were not just as serious.

Clergymen and journalists have smeared the term "love" with so much sentimentality that even its echo stinks.

Appartengono alla letteratura tutti i libri che si possono leggere due volte.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

Die Götter strafen, indem sie die Dinge ihrer Bedeutung berauben.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.

Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness.

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demonstrate that meaning does not exist.

Finalement, ce qui constitue l'ossature de l'existence, ce n'est ni la famille, ni la carrière, ni ce que d'autres diront ou penseront de vous, mais quelques instants de cette nature, soulevés par une lévitation plus sereine encore que celle de l'amour, et que la vie nous distribue avec une parcimonie à la mesure de notre faible cœur.

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.