Quotes About Meaning

This is my way, what is your way? The way doesn't exist.

But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.

nihilism represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals—because we must experience nihilism before we can find out what value these values really had.'— We require, sometime, new values.

Nihilism appears at that point, not that the displeasure at existence has become greater than before but because one has come to mistrust any meaning in suffering, indeed in existence. One interpretation has collapsed; but because it was considered the interpretation it now seems as if there were no meaning at all in existence, as if everything were in vain.

sometimes a digar is just a cigar

Parfois un cigar est seulement un cigar comme dit Freud, mais aussi Clinton !

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

A arte é o grande estimulante da vida

When brother fled from brother, when lovers passed Each other by in ignorance, when fathers failed To recognize their sons, when human words no more Were understood, nor human laws, that was when The meaning of it all assailed me and I trembled: It was my nation's parting god!

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

Art is the proper task of life.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.