“How can anyone become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third of the day without passions, people and books?”
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §324.
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §324.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Carl Gustav Jung
“It is not to everyone’s taste that truth should be called pleasant, but at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is called unpleasant.”
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §349 (edited).
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §349 (edited).
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
- Edmund Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
- Edmund Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays