Who among us hasn't sighed happily in a moment of bliss, This is the life? Or wondered during a moment of contemplation, What is the meaning of life?
What is life? Is it a magical journey of poignant sensations? Is it just a grinding road to an inevitable end? Can life truly be compared to a car, or a cake?
That depends who you ask, and the great and some rather less so have had intriguing observations about the meaning of life over the millennia. This book brings some of the better suggestions, collated by N G Blum - from the flippant to the deadly serious, so to speak. In any case, they provide rich food for thought: Why are you alive?
What is life? Is it a magical journey of poignant sensations? Is it just a grinding road to an inevitable end? Can life truly be compared to a car, or a cake?
That depends who you ask, and the great and some rather less so have had intriguing observations about the meaning of life over the millennia. This book brings some of the better suggestions, collated by N G Blum - from the flippant to the deadly serious, so to speak. In any case, they provide rich food for thought: Why are you alive?
