Quotes About Meaning

Celý život není nic jiného než otázky, které dostaly tvar a které v sobÄ› nesou zárodek odpovÄ›dí - a není nic než odpovÄ›di, které jsou obt?žkány otázkami. Kdo v nÄ›m vidí nÄ›co jiného, je blázen.

Fiecare lucru de pe pamant nu e decat simbolul etern invesmantat in colb.

Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

Prague does not have its name for no reason - in truth, Prague is a threshold between the life on Earth and Heaven, a threshold much thinner and narrower then in any other places…

Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

You don't make art out of good intentions.

Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy, socialism, equality, liberty, &c., whose meaning is so vague that bulky volumes do not suffice to precisely fix it. Yet it is certain that a truly magical power is attached to those short syllables, as if they contained the solution of all problems.

Los imitadores olvidan el ser o no ser del trágico eminente, y al hacerlo caen en ese abismo sin fondo de que nos habla el creador de Hamlet: ¡Palabras, palabras, palabras!

podrá no haber poetas; pero siempre habrá poesía

The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A totality of events and values, the world itself, requires another.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

the names we use for things bear no inherent relation to the things themselves.

Much of a language's complexity is not necessarily for effective communication.

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

reason is much more prosaic, and is simply that meta-phora is Greek for 'carry across' (meta = 'across', phor = 'carry'). Or to use the Latin equivalent, meta-phor just means trans-fer.

And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

My third glass of a night is blue, Alessan said. The third glass I drink is always of blue wine. In memory of something lost. Lest on any single night I forget what it is I am alive to do.

It was upon them. Who knows love? Who says he knows love? What is love, tell me. An old song. A child's song.

Sometimes the one life we are allowed is enough.

You can indeed die at the margins of a story, but you are as dead as if it were your own tale ending and never told.

or insignificant. Its outcome changed the course of Judaea's history, of Rome's history, and that of the world. Nor is the story over. The efforts to give the war meaning continue, and not only among the priestly courses of historians and archaeologists.

Love and hate, Miss Kendra, are not two opposite things. They're like the front of your hand and the back of it, Two sides of the same thing. They both mean, this person matters to me.