Quotes About Meaning

La búsqueda de D•os y la revelación final son las únicas cosas que dan sentido a la vida del hombre.

Lloro mi perdida juventud, mis esperanzas y mis sueños, el espectro de una promesa muerta, los años enguirnaldados en los que yo creí que la vida tenía algún significado. ¿Cómo pueden soportar los otros hombres esta carga?

Aristóteles: «El hombre juicioso no da su vida a la ligera, porque hay pocas cosas por las que merezca la pena morir. Sin embargo, en los momentos de grave crisis, al hombre juicioso no le importará perder la vida, porque hay circunstancias en las que no merece la pena vivir».

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.

It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing.

We human beings may not be the answer to the question why, but I will keep looking for the answer to how. This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself. Amen.

Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false.

It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force. I speak, therefore I am.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose.

She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe.

She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe. Physical

If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.

Our language has two words for what in your language is called 'true.' There is what's right, mimi, and what's precise, vough. In a dispute the principals say what they consider right; they speak mimi. The witnesses, however, are sworn to say precisely what happened; they speak vough. When Sabe has heard what happened he can decide what action is mimi for everyone. But it's not lying if the principals don't speak vough, as long as they speak mimi.

This is the story of a man named Neil Fisk, and how he came to love God.

Dana nodded. "We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world.

M]any people are so quick to classify events as miraculous that it devalues the word.

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we've lived; they're the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments

But if it's in fact true that you have no purpose in mind for me, then that sense of fulfillment has arisen solely from within myself.

This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose." And I had no response. I had always assumed those were one and the same, but what if they aren't? I don't know what to think now. It frightens me to imagine that you have never been listening at all.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose." And I had no response.

They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.