Storm Jameson Quotes

If you cannot render me a reason how I came hither, and what I am, I must go to those who will render me one. And if that craving be not satisfied by a rational theory of life, it will demand satisfaction from some magical theory;

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.