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Man is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.


— Hermann Hesse, in Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe

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Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one’s existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The “metaphysical need,” ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

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— pp. 41-42 (Philosophy and Real Politics (2008))

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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.


— Hermann Hesse, in Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe

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The higher standard of living, the more consideration we give to the fun we derive from what we do and its meaningfulness.


— Ackoff (1994, p.71) cited in: James P. Lewis (2002) Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence. p.35

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