Quotes About Meaning

But the thing is, sometimes you have to stand up for your beliefs. And that's what I was doing. This election wasn't about me. It was about freedom. Ed. Note: Reese HAS NO CLUE what that even means (his campaign manager taught him to say it)

Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken,And every speche that ys spoken,Lowd or pryvee, foul or fair,In his substaunce ys but air.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so?And if love is, what thing and which is he?If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

Ek gret effect men write in place lite;Th' entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

Even now, I tell myself, there is a language / to which I might speak and which / would rightly hear me...

Everything that I write is a kind of battle won—or lost—against silence and incoherence." —Geoffrey Hill

Sometimes english masters make you read poems chiz chiz chiz. You have to sa the weedy words and speke them beatifully as if you knew what they meant. Fotherington-tomas thinks this is absolutely super and when he sa he wander lonely as a cloud you think he will flote out of the window.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

Chant to him: "An individual thinks for himself." Then roll that around in his head till it means: "If I didn't think of it, it has no bearing on my life.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Sren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

Societies need strong mediating communities through which traditions of personal virtue, common good and ultimate meaning are transmitted to new generations. It is hard to see how such communities can flourish without a religious dimension, and in traditionally Christian lands, that means a Christian one.

This life is not given to us as a pastime. There was a solemn purpose in our creation, in the life that God has given to us. Let us study what that purpose is, that we may progress and obtain eternal life.

There was a purpose for a person being in your life at a certain time, even if it does not last.

When any of us experiences a loss, there comes a time in the grief process when we shake our fists skyward and yell, Why? It is the wrong question. The question we need to ask is "What is the journey and what is the growth that I must accomplish by suffering the loss of someone or something so meaningful to me?" It is the first step in the long and winding road that is to be our life's spiritual journey

If you are at least trying to make sense of the senseless, then you are moving toward the Light. What we live through and continue in spite of is our spiritual lesson.

Instead of learning from one mind at a time, the search engine learns from the collective human mind, all at once. Every time an individual searches for something, and finds an answer, this leaves a faint, lingering trace as to where (and what) some fragment of meaning is. The fragments accumulate and, at a certain point, as Turing put it in 1948, "the machine would have 'grown up.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.… Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful…that's what matters to me.

For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.

The primary aim of all religions and philosophical systems is to furnish an antidote to the certainty of death.

Hell is paved with good intention, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.