"Man's progress is but a gradual discovery..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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More on Philosophy
“Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.”
“The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.”
“I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.”
More on Meaning
“I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.”