Quotes About Meaning

if they did not interrogate their most fundamental beliefs, they would live superficial, expedient lives, because "the unexamined life is not worth living."7

Again, what works well in the spiritual domain can become destructive and even immoral if interpreted literally and practically in the mundane world. It

Logos cannot assuage our sorrow or evoke our sense of the transcendent, so it cannot convince us that, despite all the rational evidence to the contrary, our lives have meaning and value.

Sound had always been sacred to the Aryans—it was far more important to them than the meaning of these hymns—so when they intoned and memorised them, the priests felt possessed by a sacred presence. The idea that the sound of a sacred text could be more important than the truths it conveys immediately challenges our modern notion of "scripture," which, of course, implies a written text.

What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third

Our neocortex has made us meaning-seeking creatures, acutely aware of the perplexity and tragedy of our predicament, and if we do not discover some ultimate significance in our lives, we fall easily into despair.

Things are happening to you, and you feel them happening, but except for this one fact, you have no connection with them, and no key to the cause or meaning of them.

19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know

The truth is, words are never accidental.

Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious reformer.

it's sad day when you forget your purpose in life.

in Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees

What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last for only as long as you can take out a book.' -We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

There is meaning in the dark corners of human life and in that meaning lies hope

Everything happens for a reason. Everything. The good, the bad, the indifferent. They all have a purpose. Never forget who you are. Never forget what you serve. And no matter what happens, keep your face turned to the light.

Love that defied trite words or even description, that carried with it tenderness and passion and laughter and friendship. Love that made her eyes sparkle and her breath stop when she saw him and imbued life with more meaning and more purpose.

Dom decided that when life returned to normal—even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could—he'd follow Cole's example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You couldn't replace them, and they didn't earn interest. They just slipped away a day at a time, and you had to make the most of every precious moment.

And he explained that there was no Mandalorian word for "hero." It was only not being one that had its own word: Hut'uun.

I bet you were a Boy Scout. You are incomprehensible. It's just a compliment.

It's very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose.

Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.

Where all meaning disappears, and all certainty vanishes, something arises deep inside man: the self-preservation of his essential identity. This identity preserves itself through endurance - I have to face my destiny in silence - and through the courage to live and the courage to die with dignity.

felsefe; yolda olmak demektir.