When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. Read Summary
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.' Read Summary
If there is a 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. Read Summary
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Read Summary
Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others. Read Summary
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Read Summary
Do we mean love, when we say love? Read Summary
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Read Summary
Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering. Read Summary
I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me. Read Summary
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. Read Summary
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Read Summary
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. Read Summary
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. Read Summary
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. Read Summary
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. Read Summary
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. Read Summary
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' Read Summary
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Read Summary
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Read Summary