The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

The meaning of life is life.