Quotes About Meaning

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

Man's existence precedes his essence

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.