Quotes About Meaning

Em consequência, o romance não é significativo por descrever pedagogicamente um destino alheio, mas porque esse destino alheio, graças à chama que o consome, pode dar-nos o calor que não podemos encontrar em nosso próprio destino. O que seduz o leitor no romance é a esperança de aquecer sua vida gelada com a morte descrita no livro.

There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language.

Love! I detest the very sound of the word. What has it ever meant to me, I should like to know, in this—this cage? Scarcely a streak of gilding on the bars

If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.

If there is no love, what then?

When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone." Then she walked away.

When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone.

each moment is not distinct but instead contains connections to a narrative.

una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer," Jobs told Fortune shortly after retaking the reins at Apple. "But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

poetry as a language within a language

Concepts have meaning only if we can point to objects to which they refer and to the rules by which they are assigned to these objects. In other words, for a concept to make sense you need an operational definition of it, one that describes how you would observe the concept in operation.

Sutil es el Señor, pero malicioso no lo es.

En la pintura, las acciones de las figuras expresan, en todos los casos, la intención de su ánimo

Man stands on this diminutive earth, gazes at the myriad stars and upon billowing oceans and tossing trees—and wonders. What does it all mean? How did it come about?

Detrás de las cosas tenía que haber algo profundamente oculto.

The most important of his edits was small but resounding. He crossed out, using the heavy backslashes that he often employed, the last three words of Jefferson's phrase "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" and changed them to the words now enshrined in history: "We hold these truths to be self-evident.

There is some difference between them and sheep: Sheep will never make any insurrections.

Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.

One can oppose the shallow optimism of so many Western thinkers and yet refuse to negate life.

And man is capable of standing superhuman suffering if only he feels sure that there is some point and purpose to it, while much less pain will seem intolerable of devoid of meaning.

Nietzsche says: "Nicht nur fort sollst du dich pflanzen sondern hinauf"—you should propagate yourself not only onward but upward: procreation need not be a senseless continuation of an essentially meaningless story and an addition of more and more zeros—it can really be a creation.

She was already dead, but we were starved for followers and stupefied by the elixir of our own heroism, and so we pretended words could resurrect her.