Douglas Adams Quotes

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

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

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

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

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

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.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

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

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

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.