“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”
— Leo Tolstoy, book A Confession
Source: Confession (1882), Ch. 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983
Source: A Confession
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