“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”
― The Problems of Philosophy
― The Problems of Philosophy
“people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“A man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.”
― The Problems of Philosophy
― The Problems of Philosophy
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