Conundrum or Joke?

Muser
2 min readMay 5, 2024

The meaning of life

Camus — You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Tolstoy — The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity

Schwarzenegger — For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Nietzsche — To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Satre — Life is a useless passion.

Charlie Chaplin — Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Socrates — All I know is that I do not know anything.

Dalai Lama — What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Wittgenstein — I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Douglas Adams — The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.

Derrida — If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

Confucius — Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Marcus Aurelius — Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Augustine — To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Karl Marx — Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Bruce Lee — The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence

Guy Kawasaki — If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Pythogoras — The finest type of man gives himself up to discovering the meaning and purpose of life itself. He seeks to uncover the secrets of nature.

Niels Bohr — The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

Einstein — Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Woody Allen — I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

Charles Bukowski — Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important. I mean it’s not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

Lin Yutang — If one’s bowels move, one is happy, and if they don’t move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

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