Quotes About Meaning

Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances.

What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.

Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?

Isn't it more important to live reality and not symbols?

Even symbols decayed.

When an idea is preserved, isn't its form unimportant.

Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.

Koskela mihi sie määt? huuteli Rokka. – Jerusalemiin.

Macedonian or Bactrian Greeks were most usually intended is not

Graced with a conch-shell's triple line, His throat displays the auspicious sign.16

We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost."

In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.

Why seek some higher truth and service, when all the truth is in the fact that you're worth nothing and won't be worth anything anymore, that everything that you came into the world to do, you've done long ago, and that your only work now is to be a burden to others. Is that so? Is it?

What do we mean by individuality? It is a unified plurality, an enlargement of one's possibilities and their subordination to the principal purpose that determines all. Without a purpose, individuality does not exist.

Everything that lived on earth had one meaning only: to serve.

Why are you taking away my last hope that I had lived to some purpose?

all revelation which does not give hope is useless and superfluous.

A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.

There is no conquest that has any meaning, there is no war worth fighting. In the end, the only earth left to us is the earth in which we are buried.

deeper joy comes from peace and love and knowing you are living the life you were meant to live. You