Quotes About Meaning

For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible.

Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.

Este es el horror del hombre moderno: porque su fin es la nada, él no es nada.

If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

If life ends at the grave, then it makes no ultimate difference whether you live as a Stalin or as a Mother Teresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behavior, you may as well just live as you please. As the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky put it: "If there is no immortality … then all things are permitted.

my favorite is the cosmological argument. But cosmological and teleological arguments don't touch people where they live. The

The point is this: if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends that life has meaning.

quest for social coherence become independent from one another. This is because on the view of relativism the search for self-fulfillment becomes radically privatized: each person chooses his own set of values and meaning.

Nor can science overcome the absurdity of life caused by death. Science cannot prolong life forever. It is noteworthy that Eiseley never returns to the question of death, which was awakened in him as a child, to show how science answers this problem. For it cannot. The religion of science has no answer to man's deepest questions.

If each individual person passes out of existence when he dies, then what ultimate meaning can be given to his life?

The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist.

Dostoyevsky said, "All things are permitted." But man cannot live this way. So he makes a leap of faith and affirms values anyway. And when he does so, he reveals the inadequacy of a world without God.

there is no God, then life itself becomes meaningless. Man and the universe are without ultimate significance.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

Words penetrated the tank from the outer room. They were tantalizing, like those ghosts of meaning in a great symphonyhinting that the composer had caught a glimpse of something notes could only vaguely convey and words could never even approach.

God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

Kata-kata yang ingin kau ucapkan sekarang... Jangan katakan. Dan itu, sobatku, adalah rahasia panjang umur.

Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself, and when the husks are discarded, they lie on the road and rot and disappear. Actions are what lie inside, like the bean.

They saw the world in different ways. For him, life was like a story that had answers, or a conclusion that made sense. For her, the story was sinuous and unclear, and if there was happiness to be had, it might arrive announced, or it might land in the arms of another person.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?

The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our action toward the whole universe is a result of what it means to be us.