Quotes About Meaning

A deconstructed text is tantamount to a forgery.

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Spirituality' is a word that, in broad terms, stands for lifestyles and practices that embody a vision of human existence and of how the human spirit is to achieve its full potential. In that sense, 'spirituality' embraces an aspirational approach, whether religious or secular, to the meaning and conduct of human life.

As human beings, we are naturally driven by goals beyond physical satisfaction or mental supremacy to seek a deeper level of meaning and fulfilment.

The actual word 'spirituality' was first used in Christianity before it extended to other world religions where it is now used quite general.

The noun 'spirituality' in the Middle Ages simply meant the clergy. Subsequently it first appeared in reference to 'the spiritual life' during the 17th century. It disappeared for a time but re-established itself at the end of the 19th century in French, of which the modern English word 'spirituality' is a translation.

Sartre intends to convey the view that man first exists without purpose or definition, finds himself in the world and only then, as a reaction to experience, defines the meaning of his life. It

Machines may get better at "mimicking human meaning," and thereby better at predicting human behavior, but "there's a difference between mimicking and reflecting meaning and originating meaning," Ferrucci said. That's a space human judgment will always occupy.

So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight.

We may never know when the right word will transform a person's life.

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.

They could simply not accept that there might be no God, precisely because that would mean that life was not inherently meaningful. In their heart of hearts they were unwilling to confront the possibility that they themselves, the vast universe of every individual consciousness, could be as meaningless and as random as a leaf whirled into the air by a gust of wind. The

In other words, it makes no difference whether one believes in God. As there is no way of proving or disproving the object of this belief, it remains a personal choice, much like a preference for a particular dish or for strong coffee. You may believe what you want, as long as it helps you live. This

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

It is important to have friends. They are the meaning we give to life.

I realize that this is what it means to be lovers: using the same words to speak of the same things though one has never heard the other use them; these random similarities, this remarkable intimacy.

Je songe que l'énigme de sa mort est ce qui me divertit du mystère de sa vie.

Tout ce qui n'est pas griffé n'existe pas. Les jeunes placent leur cerveau et leur âme dans un petit crocodile vert, dans trois bandes noires, dans une virgule horizontale : ils n'existent pas en dehors. Lacoste, Adidas et Nike sont devenus la trinité d'une religion creuse, aux saints chaque jour plus nombreux, et qui condamne les hommes à se déguiser en hamburger pour gagner leur vie. Gagner sa vie, mais laquelle ?