Viktor Frankl·1946There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
Simone Weil·1943At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being. The good is the only source of the sacred. There is nothing sacred except the good and what pertains to it.
Carl Jung·1963As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristicks of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
