What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Source:From 'The Meaning of Life,' Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querida Verlag (1934)
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