Purpose and Meaning of Life

We should not desire the impossible.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life … to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience.

But if a person has had the sense of the Call -- the feeling that there's an adventure for him -- and if he doesn't follow that, but remains in the society because it's safe and secure, then life dries up.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.

No human thing is of serious importance.

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.

Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

I am Merlin Who follow the Gleam.

 

If we find the answer to that [why it is that we and the universe exist], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.

 

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King— Else, wherefore born?

 

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.