Quotes About Meaning

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

The real things about man are not his body.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

Man is created for the glory of God.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Even the word 'science' comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'to cut' or 'to separate.' The same root led to the word 'shit,' which of course means to separate living flesh from nonliving waste. The same root gave us 'scythe' and 'scissors' and 'schism,' which have obvious connections to the concept of separation.

In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.