Quotes About Meaning

Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.

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Truth...a mobile army of metaphors.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find something worth suffering for.

Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.

Why? said Zarathustra. Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why.

to see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is. beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy. why languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?

Alguém que iça as velas de um barco e assim se deixa levar pelas tempestades não esteve numa viagem; apenas foi jogado de um lado para o outro. O mesmo acontece com a vida. Estar fora de controle, ser carregado pelos acontecimentos sem ter tempo para as experiências mais valiosas e significativas, é bem diferente de viver verdadeiramente.

Epicurus summed up his whole philosophy in his epitaph: 'I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind' If

people say, "I didn't ask to be born," I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. We must. It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.

We look, most humans, for a way to be warm and safe; for a haven for our bodies when, once fire was discovered and clothes invented, when once we understood why the squirrels moved seeds around and what to call the plant the jaguar got giggly off of, when once we no longer worried about being eaten by other mammals or each other we looked for meaning with this life we were given.

and neither of them ever said what they meant and i guess nobody ever does

Of the many foundations upon which humans rest, words are probably the most solid.

I guess we all get to live out our destiny, even those of us who have to choose the worst one imaginable. So why did I take this strange, dark trip? Well, I have a little 1-2-3 theory on this.

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

Who knows, perhaps God is simply the search for God.

ÎÈ›i vin în gând mari asemenea modele, vezi limpede c? eÈ™ti un om de nimic, c? viaÈ›a È›i se iroseÈ™te în bucurii È™i în tristeÈ›i m?runte, în discuÈ›ii f?r? sens. "RuÈ™ine! RuÈ™ine!" strigi muÈ™cându-È›i buzele.

Când toate merg anapoda, ce bucurie s? ne punem sufletul la încercare dac? are rezisten?? È™i valoreaz? ceva!

Tanr? bir uçurumdur.

Everything is of God, he reflected; everything has two meanings, one manifest, one hidden.

Whatever befalls us has its meaning; though it is often hard to grasp. In the Book of Life every page has two sides. On the upper one, we inscribe our plans, dreams and hopes; the reverse is filled by providence, whose verdicts rarely match our desire.

I don't pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn't make sense without prayer.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984. Everybody here applauds that book, but nobody is willing to think about what it means. What Winston Smith [the main character] was saying is, if we can still understand that 2 + 2 = 4, they haven't taken everything away. Okay? Well, in the United States, people can't even understand that 2 + 2 = 4.