Quotes About Meaning

Se um determinado livro não tiver sobre o leitor um tal impacto que no dia seguinte ele deixe de ir ao emprego, esse livro nada vale.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exist for other people

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. - Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted

WHAT is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Le cose più preziose della vita non sono quelle che si comprano con il danaro

Space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept empty space loses its meaning.

Aucun destin ne justifierait une quelconque exaltation de quiconque

Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that's counted truly counts