Quotes About Meaning

how does it feel that the only worthy thing you ever created came from the worst kind of loss?

Kahani bewaqoof ghatna ke byore mein nahin hoti. Usse upajne wali nayi aur alag duniya mein hoti hai. Wah nahi gadhi, to kuch nahin. The story lies not in reportage of a stupid incident. But in the new and different world it gives rise to. If that is not constructed, it's nothing.

it is not so desirable that we should al- ways win, as that the game itself be worth the playing.

Cum lesne se poate vedea poezia este dou? lucruri bine distincte...

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.

Who is she, why is she still here and when can I see her naked? Paris asked with an eyebrow wiggle

Today you live, tomorrow you die. Make what you do in the meantime matter. -Troika

Have you realized that dying is the only way to truly live?

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4

Misunderstanding literary form can result in misunderstanding Scripture.

But the Bible is not just a text to interpret; rather, it is a text that interprets us.

The word obscene can be thought of as meaning "out of the scene" or "offstage."7

Every path serves a purpose.

No joke will work if you have to furnish a detailed explanation with it.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Remember that things are symbols, and that the thing symbolized is more important than the symbol itself.