Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: meaning-of-life
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.
Henri PoincaréTags: motivational science life inspirational intelligence inspiration beauty meaning-of-life nature harmony order pure intimate quailty
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
Stephen KingTags: meaning-of-life
We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue--only we've all been issued the wrong librettos. For a text, we're given the Bible. Or the Talmud or the Koran. We're given Time magazine, and Reader's Digest, daily papers, and the six o'clock news; we're given schoolbooks, sitcoms, and revisionist histories; we're given psychological counseling, cults, workshops, advertisements, sales pitches, and authoritative pronouncements by pundits, sold-out scientists, political activists, and heads of state. Unfortunately, none of these translations bears more than a faint resemblance to what is transpiring in the true theater of existence, and most of them are dangerously misleading. We're attempting to comprehend the spiraling intricacies of a magnificently complex tragicomedy with librettos that describe the barrom melodramas or kindergarten skits. And when's the last time you heard anybody bitch about it to the management?
Tom RobbinsTags: life truth existence reality meaning-of-life religion fact
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Muriel BarberyTags: meaning-of-life honey bees
The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.
Johanna PaunggerTags: purpose meaning-of-life ispirational
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?
Frederica Mathewes-GreenTags: meaning-of-life faith spirituality christ orthodoxy
The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...
Jane BennettTags: life energy meaning-of-life matter life-force
A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to 'pure immanence,' or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: 'A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities.
Jane BennettTags: science life energy meaning-of-life matter life-force
It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence.
Ernst JüngerTags: meaning-of-life sacrifice ernst-jünger
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