Quotes About Meaning

Que haya palabra y se vea su silencio, y, en este silencio, aparezca por un instante la cosa restituida a su anonimato, al no tener todavía o ya no tener nombre.

Ello no significa, sin embargo, que la escritura filosófica deba ser poética sino que sobre todo debe contener las huellas de una escritura poética que se desvanece, debe exhibir de algún modo el retiro de la poesía.

et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?

Šopenhauer i Ni?e su prvi u?ili o dubokom zna?enju besmislenosti života, i pokazali kako ta besmislenost može da se pretvori u umetnost...Užasna praznina koju su otkrili jeste upravo bezdušna i nepomu?ena lepota materije.

Part of the trouble is modern. Since the rescuing of the texts by the great philologists of the Nineteenth Century, one school after another has tried to inject its preconceptions into their meaning, according to the way in which they read the history of philosophical ideas. Part is ancient. And it begins very early. Plato, Aristotle, Eudemus, Theophrastus, Proclus, Simplicius are clearly at odds about what Parmenides may really have meant.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

He who needs something to rebel against is less of a social anarchist than he who seeks to create something against which there is no need to rebel. There may be no end to the ugly, sordid, and horrifying things against which an honest man cannot help but revolt, but there are also things that are beautiful, joyful, and pure. If it were wrong to attend to the latter while the former still thrive, then a hopeless perpetual struggle would become the only meaning of life.

Pero no pudiendo ser Demiurgo, la carrera de Demonio es la única que no deshonra a un hombre que no forma parte del rebaño.

Plebe Aqueles que a adulam, para a utilizar, chamam-lhe mais rotundamente povo; os que a temem ou chacinam dão-lhe o nome de escumalha.

Viata, pentru a fi suportabila, trebuie traita din plin.

Para mí, Dios no ha muerto, porque nunca había estado vivo en mi ánima.

Actualmente, hablamos de lenguajes en plural, por tanto, de lenguajes cuyo significante no es la palabra: por ejemplo, el lenguaje del cine, de las artes figurativas, de las emociones, etcétera. Pero éstas son acepciones metafóricas. Pues el lenguaje esencial que de verdad caracteriza e instituye al hombre como animal simbólico es «lenguaje-palabra», el lenguaje de nuestra habla.

Y éste es el proceso que se atrofia cuando el homo sapiens es suplantado por el homo videns . En este último, el lenguaje conceptual (abstracto) es sustituido por el lenguaje perceptivo (concreto) que es infinitamente más pobre: más pobre no sólo en cuanto a palabras (al número de palabras), sino sobre todo en cuanto a la riqueza de significado, es decir, de capacidad connotativa.

If, as my mother used to say, a secret is a shame or a treasure, these were treasures.

What did Duncan have with which to organize pointless, brutal life?

What is the difference to you between hate, and a contempt which results in considering people as 'cargo'?" "It has nothing to do with hate. They were so weak; they allowed everything to happen – to be done to them. They were people with whom there was no common ground, no possibility of communication – that is how contempt is born.

Que não sabemos nem o que é o bem nem o que é o mal para nós. Mas que podemos decidir livremente o sentido a dar às coisas que acontecem. E essa é, no fundo, a nossa única força.

não nos contentamos em fazer qualquer coisa, queremos igualmente justificá-la. O

The poet goes there then returns to the light with his songs and scatters them Of this poetry there remains to me that nothing of inexhaustible secrecy.

Dac? va fi s? mor, f?-m? s? nu m? tem de moarte, dar f? ca moartea mea s? aib? însemn?tate, o, Dumnezeule.

Almost all words do have color and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Simultaneously (in the inner voice of a female American cultural studies professor): Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.