Full Idea
Man first implanted values into things to maintain himself - he first created the meaning of things, a human meaning!
Gist of Idea
We created meanings, to maintain ourselves
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 1.16)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.85
A Reaction
It is certainly hard to see anything resembling values or meaning in the cosmos, if you remove the human beings. We should expect an evolutionary grounding in their explanation.