• The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.

  Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)

  Carroll Quigley
  American historian and theorist
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1. self-contradictory
2. contemporary
3. consistent
4. convincing
5. provide
6. basis

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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. by : Carroll Quigley

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