Quotes About Meaning

The character of faith resolves all tensions between objectivity and subjectivity, For faith has significance only in its orientation to its object - the grace of God.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.

The authority of God is unlike what is usually meant by "external authority" ... The authority of God brings perspective, joy and hope.

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

a momentary, positive emotion, an overall evaluation of the past or hope for the future, and a deep sense of joy, connection, and meaning.

So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.

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I was advised to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

A MAN who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it, whatever its value may be.

will end with a summary of my conclusions, but putting them in a more personal way. I said at the beginning that anyone who defends his subject will find that he is defending himself;

Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Tous mes amis sont des mots.

Hat?ralamak, güzel bir kelime, var olup olmad???n? bilmiyorum, hat?ralar? olmak anlam?na geliyor.

Gerçek dinin ölüm üzerine bir meditasyon de?il, hayat üzerine bir meditasyon olmas? gerekti?ini (oradan) ö?rendim.

Humans in the power of death looks no worthier than animal, cherish ur life!

It takes sometime and a lot of looking around but you eventually find that your home is alot more just the house you live in.

Medicii numesc aceast? stare depresie. Eu o în?e­leg mai bine ca dezagregare a sistemului de iluzii în virtutea c?ruia înaint?m, f?ptuim, ne agit?m, d?m contur clipei urm?toare ?i zilei de mâine.

Nici un cuvânt nu a acoperit atât de bine ca "religie" dubla semantic? a lui "pharmakon": leac ?i otrav?.

L-am intrebat de ce citeste la nesfarsit pe marii ganditori ai lumii devreme ce nu vrea sa publice nimic? "Pentru ca nu vreau decat sa inteleg. Nu vreau sa mor bou." a fost raspunsul. Cei mai multi dintre noi traim fara sa fi inteles nimic. Sau, mai rau inca, fara sa ne fi propus sa intelegem ceva.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

il verso è tutto e può tutto.