Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

Life's objective is life itself.

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.