Sigmund Freud Quotes

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

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

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

The purpose of life is to live it.

The aim of living is life itself.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.