12 SEP 2011 by ideonexus

 Learning as the Meaning of Life

[Learning is] the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there's a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it's time to die, and that will come to all of us, there'll be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, that you had learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. I mean, there's only this universe and only this one lifetime to...
Folksonomies: learning
Folksonomies: learning
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It's enjoyable, broadens us, and gives us a feeling that we have lived our lives well.