Quotes About Meaning

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Men die and they are not happy.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We do not ignore the use of the meaning in dreaming. But it is good to recognize that there is also dreaming in meaning.

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.