Quotes About Meaning

Podstata lidské existence spo?ívá v její sebetranscendenci. Být ?lovÄ›kem znamená vždy už být zam??en a nastaven na nÄ›co nebo nÄ›koho, být oddán nÄ›jakému dílu.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than one-self or as a by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Having shown the beneficial impact of meaning orientation, I turn to the detrimental influence of that feeling of which so many patients complain today, namely the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the existential vacuum.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Vivir significa asumir la responsabilidad de encontrar la respuesta correcta a las cuestiones que la existencia nos plantea, cumplir con las obligaciones que la vida nos asigna a cada uno en cada instante particular.

el acto del amor y el acto del conocimiento se designaran en hebreo con la misma palabra.

only to the extent to which a man commits himself to the fulfilment of his life's meaning [i.e., his vocation], to this extent he also actualizes himself. In other words, self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of the self-transcendence [that is guided by a vocation].

When a person cannot find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure

la vida no se trata de dar sentido, sino de encontrar sentido. La vida no es ningún test de Rorschach, sino un cuadro enigmático. El sentido de la vida no puede idearse, hay que descubrirlo.

Nadie niega que el hombre en ciertas circunstancias no puede comprender el sentido, sino que ha de interpretarlo, lo que ni mucho menos significa que esta interpretación se haga arbitrariamente. En efecto, a cada pregunta corresponde sólo una respuesta, la correcta, y a cada problema sólo una solución, la que vale; así también a cada situación corresponde un solo sentido, que es el único verdadero.

Si el hombre en medio de todo este torbellino de estímulos quiere sobrevivir y resistir a los medios de comunicación de masas, debe saber qué es o no lo importante, qué es o no lo fundamental; en una palabra, qué es lo que tiene sentido y qué es lo que no lo tiene.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

Viktor Frankl

This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love… A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how.

The ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man.

la felicidad debe surgir como consecuencia, pero en modo alguno debe ser buscada en sí misma.

Seit ich weiss, dass man mit Text nichts mitteilen kann, kann ich Texte verstehen.

El hombre tiene capacidad, fuerza, vocación para superarse a sí mismo, olvidarse de sí, perderse de vista, cuando se entrega a una tarea o a un semejante. Esto es lo que yo entiendo por autotrascendencia.

El ateo preferiría que se fuera honesto por uno mismo, por el bien de otro o por la bondad intrínseca de la cosa, y no para ir al cielo.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice

Texts do not signify the world, they signify the images they tear up. Hence, to decode texts, means to discover the images dignified by them

Traditional images signify phenomena whereas technical (produced by an apparatus) images signify concepts.

The cultural authenticity of cloth arises not from the purity of its origins but from the ways in which individuals and groups turn textiles to their own purposes. Consumers, not producers, determine the meaning and value of textiles.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.