There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom.

All that can be spelled out is without importance.

Light floods the room. Someone asks a question. But the night arrives on time.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

Man-a being in search of meaning.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any.'

Be sure you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

That must be wonderful; I have no idea what it means.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

We must each find our separate meaning In the persuasion of our days Until we meet in the meaning of the world.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.

Therefore the universe is the outward visible expression of the Real, and the Real is the inner unseen reality of the Universe.

I saw somebody peeing in Jermyn Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply somebody peeing in Jermyn Street?

In the heart of the God of the universe, each child of his is as necessary to him as the fingers are to the hand.-In the marvelous design of the universe, not even a sparrow can fall to earth meaninglessly ...

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them ... there is nothing.