Quotes About Meaning

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.

And if you have any doubts, Peter added, Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.

The chalice," he said, "resembles a cup or vessel, and more important, it resembles the shape of a woman's womb. This symbol communicates femininity, womanhood, and fertility.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books

I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature—the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, et cetera." "Okay. And codes?" "Codes are special," Langdon said, his tone rising. "Codes, by definition, must carry information. They must do more than simply form a pattern—codes must transmit data and convey meaning.

point the way,' he was talking in metaphorical terms. This pointing-hand gesture—with its index finger and thumb extended upward—is a well-known symbol of the Ancient Mysteries, and it appears

The well-known Latin phrase—meaning "praise God"—was inscribed on the tip of the Washington Monument in script letters only one inch tall. On full display . . . and yet invisible to all. Laus

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change.

Replication. Repeating a symbol is the simplest way to strengthen its meaning. Jacques Saunière positioned himself in the shape of a five-pointed star." If one pentacle is good, two is better.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? —NIETZSCHE

Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life and the universe?

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us." Langdon

Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories . . . legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God.

La religión es como un idioma o un vestido. Gravitamos alrededor de las prácticas en las que hemos sido educados. Al final, sin embargo, todos proclamamos lo mismo; que la vida tiene sentido, que nos sentimos agradecidos por el poder que nos ha creado.

De unde venim? Adev?rul e c? venim de nic?ieri... È™i de pretutindeni. ApariÈ›ia noastr? se datoreaz? aceloraÈ™i legi ale fizicii care au creat viaÈ›a în întregul univers. Nu suntem cu nimic deosebiÈ›i. Exist?m cu sau f?r? Dumnezeu. Suntem rezultatul inevitabil al entropiei. ViaÈ›a nu este unicul rost al universului. ViaÈ›a este, pur È™i simplu, ceea ce creeaz? È™i reproduce universul pentru a disipa energia.

Viver no mundo sem tomar consciência do significado do mundo é como vagar por uma imensa biblioteca sem tocar os livros.

Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?

And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinthians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men'—where the milk is a watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.

A tr?i în lume f?r? a deveni conÈ™tient de sensul ei este ca È™i când ai r?t?ci într-o mare bibliotec? f?r? a atinge nicio carte.

And if you have any doubta, Peter added, Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.