Dead white guys have a lot of intelligent things to say about life.
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."
-Albert Camus
"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."
-Albert Camus
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
-Albert Camus
"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others."
-Albert Camus
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
-Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962
"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
-Carl Jung, On the Psychology of the Unconciousness, 1917
"Death is not the worst than can happen to men."
-Plato
"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light."
-Plato
