"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that
Death will tremble to take us."
The quest to understand
the meaning of life
has haunted humanity since the dawn of existence. Modern history alone has
given us a plethora of attempted answers, including ones from Steve Jobs,
Stanley Kubrick,
David Foster
Wallace, Anais Nin,
Ray Bradbury,
and Jackson
Pollock's dad. In 1988, the editors of LIFE magazine posed this grand question
head-on to 300 "wise men and women," from celebrated authors, actors,
and artists to global spiritual leaders to everyday farmers, barbers, and
welfare mothers. In 1991, they collected the results, along with a selection of
striking black-and-white photographs from the magazine's archives that answered
the question visually and abstractly, in The Meaning of Life:
Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here (public library). More at Brain Pickings Weekly
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