Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.

I think we all have a role to play in life.

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.