An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. – José Ortega y Gasset Category: Purpose
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. – Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974 Category: Purpose
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation. – George Bernard Shaw Category: Purpose
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. – Georg C. Lichtenberg Category: Knowledge
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. – Imamu Amiri Baraka Category: Religion
To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. – William Londen Category: Health
