4 Richard Dawkins Quotes on Meaning

Richard Dawkins quotes on meaning

9. We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?

56. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

59. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

85. There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.