Chris Martin Quotes

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.

I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.