meaning Quotes

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.