Quotes About Meaning

She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

She had the feeling that somehow, in the far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

I am an atheist.

The female body is like an endless sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

What is at stake here is a totally new unity of form, meaning and feeling: language-images that cannot simply be thought up or written up … They constitute new, multifaceted objects, resembling polyplanes made of mirrors … As if the illogical was relaxation, as if laughter was permitted while thinking, as if error was a way and chance, a proof of eternity.

Das, was wirklich ist, kann man mit Wörtern ohnehin immer nur annähernd beschreiben; ein Wort ist eben nie genau die Sache selber.

The primary task of theology (and let's forget here about the distinction between biblical and dogmatic theology) is not to explain the historical meaning of the text but to use the Scriptures as a means of grace in drawing the reader to Jesus Christ.

Now I shall be of some use in the world, as every one ought to be; it is the only way to be happy.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Who wants to die?' he asked. 'Everyone wants to live, everyone – even the most miserable worm is screaming for life! I want to live, too. But maybe it's a good thing, Anna, even in the midst of life to think of a wretched death, and to get ready for it. So that you know you'll be able to die properly, without moaning and whimpering. That would be disgusting to me…

Poetska re? je jednako kao i filozofska u stanju da stoji i da se u odvojenosti "teksta" u kome se artikuliše iskaže sa sopstvenim autoritetom. "Filozofija i poezija

les fins de l'homme sont domiciliées dans la nature.

Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.

The letter kills, it is the Spirit that gives life!" (2 Cor 3:6). You may be sure, reverend sir, that I will never accept some concept from Scripture if I have not really understood its meaning.

is gleaned from both "books" together. The "contemplation of nature" (?????? ??????) and of the structures of meaning (?????) hidden within it, structures that are part of every single being, becomes for Maximus a necessary step, a kind of initiation, into the knowledge of God.

En el caso del arte, siempre nos encontramos ya, en realidad, en una tensión entre la pura aspectualidad (Aspekthaftigkeit) de la visión y del Anbild, según lo he llamado, y el significado que adivinamos en la obra de arte y que reconocemos por la importancia que cada encuentro semejante con el arte tiene para nosotros. ¿En qué se basa este significado? ¿Qué es ese plus que se añade, y sólo por el cual llega la obra de arte a ser lo que es?

Con seguridad, la esencia de una gran obra de arte no ha consistido nunca en procurarle a la «naturaleza» una reproducción plena y fiel, un retrato.

La significatividad inherente a lo bello del arte, de la obra de arte, remite a algo que no está de modo inmediato en la visión comprensible como tal.

Arte es algo cuyo «uso», en vez de ser un verdadero utilizar, se cumple de modo peculiar en un demorarse contemplativo en la apariencia.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Such a reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence.