Russell Hoban Quotes

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Our business is with life, not death.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Life is essentially a question of values.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Logic is no answer to passion.

All that counts in life is intention.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.