Quotes About Meaning

We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.

Senza amore, muori. Con l'amore, anche. Non tutte le morti sono uguali

Ahora bien, ¿qué es, oh Sócrates, la vida?, preguntaría yo.

This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.

But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is, in the end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.

Life is precious to us because it is ephemeral.

The incompleteness and the uncertainty of our knowledge, our precariousness, suspended over the abyss of the immensity of what we don't know, does not render life meaningless: it makes it interesting and precious.

A határozatlanság és tudásunk bizonytalansága, amint azzal tudatlanságunk végtelen szakadékaiba letekintve szembesülünk, nem teszi értelmetlenné az életet, épp ellenkez?leg: értékessé teszi.

Ma non è l'assenza che provoca dolore. Sono l'affetto e l'amore. Se non ci fosse affetto, se non ci fosse amore, non ci sarebbe il dolore dell'assenza. Per questo anche il dolore dell'assenza, in fondo, è buono e bello, perché si nutre di quello che dà senso alla vita.

If the present has no meaning, then what "exists" in the universe? Is not what "exists" precisely what is here "in the present"? The whole idea that the universe exists now in a certain configuration and changes together with the passage of time simply doesn't stack up anymore.

Augustine's exposition of the idea is quite beautiful. It is based on our experience of music. When we listen to a hymn, the meaning of a sound is given by the ones that come before and after it. Music can occur only in time, but if we are always in the present moment, how is it possible to hear it? It is possible, Augustine observes, because our consciousness is based on memory and on anticipation.

That is, there is no meaning to the velocity of an object by itself: the only velocity that exists is the velocity of an object with respect to another object.

Albert Einstein, yak?n dostu ?talyan Michele Besso öldü?ünde onun k?z karde?ine dokunakl? bir mektu yazm??t?: "Michele bu garip dünyadan benden biraz önce ayr?ld?. Bunun hiçbir anlam? yok. Bizim gibi fizi?e inanan insanlar, geçmi?, ?imdi ve gelecek aras?ndaki ayr?m?n sürüp giden inatç? bir yan?lsamadan ba?ka bir ?ey olmad???n? bilir.

due to which the value of one variable implies something about the value of the other.68 This is the meaning of the word "information" that I am using here.

If the present has no meaning, then what "exists" in the universe? Is not what "exists" precisely what is here "in the present"?

Newton, who resuscitated the Democritean idea of space, had tried to patch things up by arguing that space was God's sensorium. No one has ever understood what Newton meant by 'God's sensorium', perhaps not even Newton himself.

Existential psychology has shown the depth of the human need to matter, make a difference, and feel a significant purpose in this world. We all need to feel that we do something that matters within the frame of reference that defines our experiential world. The question is, what is this frame of reference?

I lived in a big bunkhouse of thirty farm workers with Leroy, who was a stranger to me in many ways because he was always talking about unions and unity. But he had a way of explaining the meanings of words in utter simplicity, like "work" which he translated into "power," and "power" into "security." I was drawn to him because I felt that he had lived in many places where the courage of men was tested with the cruelest weapons conceivable.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't then it is of no use to us.