Niels Bohr Quotes

I think and that is all that I am.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

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

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.