“ When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Wh… Alex Pattakos
“ And the voice spoke even more deliberately: '...but remember what is under the ocean of clouds: eternity.'And suddenly that tranquil world, the world of such simple harmony that you discover as you ri… Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary’ level of the ego, w… Terry Eagleton
“ . . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for… A.C. Grayling
“ Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action… Ambrose Bierce
“ I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2) Robert Robert
“ Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it. Ziad K. Abdelnour
“ When man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of na… Joseph Lewis
“ . . . when we take upon ourselves his yoke of obedience, his yoke is easy, his burden is light (Matt. 11:28-30). When is a burden light? It is when we find our burdensome lives caught up, elevated, bo… William H. Willimon
“ If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about na… Steven Weinberg
“ He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know. Simon Van Booy
“ If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It all… Shelly Kagan
“ The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end? William Barrett
“ We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about all of creation, the… Alexander Schmemann
“ Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meaning. When we touch the web on one side of the world, it ripples through it to the other - and so on. Skadi Winter
“ Butterflies better understand than you, the meaning of love and sacrifices one must make for their beloved. M.F. Moonzajer
“ As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and re… David Eagleman
