Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
Our whole life is solving puzzles.
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