Quotes About Meaning

The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans…. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Mi culpa es todo lo que me queda. Si la pierdo, no habré significado nada, no habré hecho nada, no habré sido nada.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

that nobody's born mean. Life warps you in terrible ways.

Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

Bobby had a gift and the gift was his simplicity. The world for Bobby Cole was a place he accepted without needing to understand it. Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

she couldn't help wondering what became of human beings who lived too long without beauty.

I'm just saying, Odie, that nobody's born mean. Life warps you in terrible ways.

And I thought, as I had so many times before, that what's important to a human being, any human being, isn't the wealth that comes from money, but the richness that comes from community, a sense of connectedness to family and to friends and, as Rainy and Henry would probably have said, to the spirit of the Great Mystery that runs through all creation.

good things are made even better when you share the story of how they came to be.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

Ninguém a quem valha a pena conhecer pode ser propriamente conhecido. Ninguém que valha a pena possuir pode ser realmente possuído.