Philosophy on meaning

“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”

“It's better to bet on this life than on the next.”

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”

“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.”

“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

“Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

“To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.”

“The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.”

“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”

“Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.”

“Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.”

“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many because they are unlike you.”

“But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”