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Submitted by olivesfruit on October 10, 2007
Category: Philosophy
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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as
meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
-Albert Einstein.
Quotes are often dangerous things to base a lot of thought around
since, after all, they must be relatively short and concise, and in the
process, may not necessarily mean the same thing when taken out of context
that they did in context. However, occasionally, a writer will write a
phrase and they will seem to know very well that it will be quoted.
That is what Einstein’s quote seems to be like. Without espousing any
one particular doctrine or another, Einstein wholeheartedly rejected
one particular idea, that being the idea that life could be without any
particular meaning. Which, logically, leaves us, the reader, with the
daunting question of “what is the meaning of life, if there so
certainly must be one?”
The fact of the matter is, Einstein was probably not certain of that
himself. A man like himself, who had seen so much and been able to
fathom such intense ideas, had probably gone beyond the point of trying to
simplify the universe to the level where what works for one person
could work for everyone else. Perhaps, then, what the quote is really
suggesting is that, to meet Einstein’s criteria for life, one must find
their own path, their own individual passion which gives them a reason
to be on this earth.
This seems to make sense. How could a human life, or the lives of
many more intelligent animals, for that matter, possibly be lived to their
full potential by a creature with no goals, no passions, simply some
deep, instinctive urge to continue their little existences? How could
that ever compare with a life like Einstein’s or those of so many he
encountered, full of great thoughts and...
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