David Eagleman Quotes

There's no victory-condition for 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?

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

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.

Who does understand life?

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

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

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.