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TEST ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE
Intelligent Quizzes


SARCASTIC THOUGHTS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE...
C
omplete these sarcastic thoughts on the significance of life...


All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to ?????
Samuel Butler


ENJOY IT
 

To succeed in life, you need two things: ?????
Mark Twain


IGNORANCE AND CONFIDENCE


Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than ?????
Lawana Blackwell


SLAVERY


We don’t live as we wish, but as we ?????
Terence

CAN


Life is a dream, and the dreams, themselves are only
?????
Calderon de la Barca

DREAMS


The man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the ?????
Joseph Conrad


SEA


Life is not an exact science, it's an ?????
Samuel Butler


ART


Life is a cabaret, old chum… Welcome to the ?????  
Fred Ebb

CABARET


Life is just one damn thing after ?????
Erbert Hubbard


ANOTHER


Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are ?????
Hans Andersen


MESSED UP



BUDDHA, OUR LIVES AND THE GODS: SHOULD WE EXPECT ANYTHING FROM THE GODS?

The gods claim to themselves the right to decide the final result of our plans for our lives.
Marcellinus Ammianus, 330-395, Roman historian, Annales


Had Buddha the same position of Roman Ammianus?

Should we expect anything from the Gods?

NO: Buddha said: Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.



WHO IS THE WISE LIVING MAN IN ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY?

1 - The smart and the one with a successful life
2 - The active one and the one who gets most pleasure from life
3 - The one who deserts society and pulls feelings and thoughts out of his life

3: The one who deserts society and pulls feelings and thoughts out of his life



THE DIGNITY OF MAN AND THE VALUE OF OUR LIVES
IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY IS IN...

1- Goodness ? 2 - Thought? 3 - Power? 4 - Wealth?

2: THOUGHT



THINKING DESTROYS THE SIFNIFICANCE OF LIFE?
What's your position?


Thinking destroys the significance of life and is a cause of misfortune?
Should we forget and avoid thinking to avoid unhappiness?
Should we question reality even if that is a cause of loss of significance of life?

The position of a great contemporary philosopher: «Even if the mind is a disease, even if  humanity is a misfortune, this illness and this misfortune are ours – for they are us, and we exist only through them» (Comte-Sponville)



LIFE AS A STAYING IN A STRANGE REGION

Marcus Aurelius, an ancient Roman emperor and philosopher wrote that life is...

... a brief staying in a strange region
... a long staying in a strange region
... a sweet staying in a strange region
... a bitter staying in a strange region
 
A BRIEF staying in a strange region



LIFE JOYFULLY WITH THE WOMAN WHOM YOU LOVE?
Who wrote this thought about the purpose of our lives?

Live joyfully with the woman whom you love the days which God has given you under the sun, for that is your portion in life.

BIBLE, Ecclesiastes



THE EXTREMES OF THINGS ARE...

Blaise Pascal, the 17th French philosopher, wrote:

Man is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes
They are hopelessly hidden, in an impenetrable secret.

Pascal was spotting any extremes on our lives or something else?

The end of things and their beginning in an astonishing big Universe of billions of stars where Earth is just a small point.





See also:
Quiz on Thoughts on Love

Quiz on Friendship and Life

See also:
Thoughts and Quotes on Life and Human Existence
Philosophies of life
Life and Friendship
Life and Love
Life is Pain
Life is a dream
Happiness
Science and meaning of life
Man and the Universe




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