Quotes About Meaning

Vivemos cercados de palavras vãs, condenados a uma civilização que teme o silêncio. Fala-se muito para dizer bem pouco. Jornais, revistas, TV, outdoors, telefone, correio eletrônico - há demasiado palavrório. E sabemos todos que não se dá valor ao que se abusa.

Gott ist] gerecht, Hofdichter. Sonst wäre die Welt keine Hölle.

Verstehe. Nach meiner Krankenschwester verging mir auch der Appetit.

The meaning of existence is existence, which insight, once accepted and affirmed, makes existence unbearable.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

If we have our own 'why' of life, we can bear almost any 'how.'

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

Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment—but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art