Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."
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Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering."
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"The meaning of life is that it is to be lived."
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"The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done."
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"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."
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"Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?"
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"Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?"
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"Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life."
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"Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself."
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"If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect."
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"The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems."
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"Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'"
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"To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life."
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"If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better."
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"The meaning of life is to get meaning for life."
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"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us."
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"That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff."
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"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete."
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"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
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"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
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