Quotes About Meaning

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Vjeruj da život vrijedi živjeti, a tvoja ?e ti vjera to i dokazati.

The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn't make a difference of fact somewhere; and it seeks to determine the meaning of all differences of opinion by making the discussion hinge as soon as possible upon some practical or particular issue.

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When the outward battle is lost, and the outward world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interiour world which otherwise would be an empty waste.

That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.

a man who possesses the art of correct reading will… instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing… The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.*… Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose…

If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick with it. And that is all: contingent and brutal without meaning. There is nothing to be learnt here. No ecstatic forgetting. There is no redemption in the sea.

Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless.

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

That is not how it is for the Ariekei. Their language is organised noise, like all of ours are, but for them each word is a funnel. Where to us each word means something, to the Hosts, each is an opening. A door, through which the thought of that referent, the thought itself that reached for that word, can be seen.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

If I program 'ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it," Scile said. "If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it's only sound, and that's not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

Come on," said Billy. "This is batshit." He pleaded. "A religion about squid?

This is called data mining." She said the last words in English. "Which of us is the canary?