Quotes About Meaning

But there is something else which I have written and which I want to read to you while I still have time,' Fritz told Karoline. 'It will not truly exist until you have heard it.' 'Is

Ze wist maar al te goed, terwijl ze daar in het doffe namiddaglicht zat met de potsierlijke verzameling kommen en schalen voor haar uitgestald, dat eenzaamheid tot eenzaamheid sprak en dat hij een rechtstreeks appél op haar gevoelens deed.

Cuando llegas al final de tu vida y ves como te acercas a la eternidad, lo unico que importa es que hayas querido de todo corazon a tus seres queridos, nada mas.

And Rose knows that dictionaries will never be the same again. Dictionaries will be forever imbued, sanctified, significant, suggestive. They will not be just themselves, but this moment, these moments, being here, like this, in this place, her and him, in this now. She will always have this now, tethered to Collins and Chambers and the Shorter Oxford.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. Later, I made an inventory of the room – a naming of parts: bed, chair, table, picture, vase, cupboard, window, curtain. Curtain. And I breathed again.

Jane--it's history, all this. I say that I have always thought history to be of great relevance.

Silence is full of speech.

She had never really believed in God. There didn't seem any point in it, and he just seemed so, well, unlikely. But now, a world that definitely had no God at all felt kind of... empty. It wasn't really God she wanted; it was the possibility of God.

Cosa so? Cosa cerco? Cosa sento? Cosa chiederei se dovessi chiedere?

The greatest rule in doing biblical exegesis is that the immediate context of a passage is crucial in determining the meaning of that passage.

But 'if ' is not a word to use in history.

The writing of history is often another way of defining chaos.

Reality is defined not as something that exists out there for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.

There is no such thing as a "good man." Good for what? is the question.

When a change in perception takes place, the facts do not change. Their meaning does.

Pero si el cansancio es ya por si mismo la mejor acción...! No es necesario que con él se pueda dar comienzo a nada, porque de por sí él es ya un comenzar y un dar -dar comienzo, se dice en un lenguaje culto-. Su dar-comienzo es una enseñanza. El cansancio enseña, es utilizable.

Religia îmi era de mult nesuferit?, cu toate acestea, am simÈ›it dintr-odat? dorinÈ›a de a m? raporta la ceva. Era insuportabil s? fii singur È™i izolat. Trebuia s? existe o relaÈ›ie cu altcineva, care s? nu fie doar personal?, întâmpl?toare È™i unic?, în care s? nu fii constrâns s? aparÈ›ii celuilalt printr-o dragoste forÈ›at? È™i mincinoas?, ci printr-o leg?tur? necesar?, impersonal?.

Perder así el continente ante un simple y estúpido sueño! ¿Y quién era él para hallar solo en tiempos sagrados sentido a la vida? ¡Basta de veleidades subjetivas! Le importaban demasiado las lucubraciones, que otros no podían siquiera permitirse.

Wat ik ooit voor mezelf heb gedacht is niets; ik ben niet meer dan wat me gelukt is tegen jullie te zeggen.

Nu Å£in s? fiu fericit?,cel mult mulÅ£umit?.Mi-e team? de fericire.Cred c? n-aÅŸ suporta-o.Aici în cap.AÅŸ înnebuni pentru todeauna sau aÅŸ muri.Sau aÅŸ ucide pe cineva.(...)Traiul de unul singur genereaz? cea mai glacial? ÅŸi scârboas? durere:aceea a deÅŸert?ciunii.Atunci ai nevoie de oameni care te înva?? s?-Å£i dai seama c? nu ai dec?zut chiar atât de mult.

The Bible is closer to poetry than to a scientific manual, and the biblical writers' use of words is more like that of poets than of linguists or scientists.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real.

Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness.