Quotes About Meaning

Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo».

Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo

It doesn't make any sense, does it?" "Some things don't," said the beetle, gloomily. "Don't be so sure," Aubrey said. "Everything makes sense if you can find the right way to look at it. What we need is a new perspective.

To have any goal in your life is to forget about the uselessness of life. To think of interesting ideas. - Isvan Moldovan

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation

In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.

All of us dream of being part of something greater than ourselves. All of us want to make a contribution. The greatest contribution you make isn't in the money you give to charities. It isn't in the nonprofit foundations you establish. And it isn't in the work you do as a volunteer. Your greatest contribution to something greater, to the lives of others, comes in what you do from nine to five.

Do you ask 'Nu' of? Or do you ask, transitively? 'Nu?' he asked. And is it even a question in the accepted sense? 'Nu,' he said. Would that have been better? Nu, meaning how are things with you, but also I know how things are with you.

That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?

If so, then we must conclude that scientists do not understand the meaning of their own theories and must wait for historians like Kuhn to enlighten them! Such a claim appears arrogant, to say the least, and imposes a burden of proof on Kuhn and other defenders of incommensurability that they have not met. So,

The implied premise of this passage is that life must be everlasting to be meaningful, but there is no obvious reason for thinking that. Why not draw the opposite conclusion—that the fact that life is short is our motivation for filling it with meaning? If we are keenly aware of "time's wingéd chariot,

When the reader has stopped to wonder at your delamificatious vocabulary, or, worse, when the reader has stopped because the word you've used has no more meaning to him than a random ptliijnbvc of letters, the reader is not involved in your story. ... Generally, saying 'edifice' instead of 'building' doesn't tell your reader anything about the building; it tells the reader that you know that word edifice.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?

A poem reaches out exactly halfway, then you reach out halfway, then see what happens. If your thinking's willful and generous toward a poem, the poem'll be equally those things back. As for meaning, it'll mean something different to each person.

what sanctities any space as a synagogue is a natter of what happens there, not where or what it is.

Infusing work with purpose and meaning, however, is a two-way street. Yes, love what you do, but your company should love you back.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that I have heard a sermon on the meaning of religion, of Christianity, to the man who stands with his back against the wall. It is urgent that my meaning be crystal clear. The masses of men live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them?

It is a subject that is taboo unless there is some extraordinary social crisis—such as war—involving the mobilization of all the national resources of the common life to meet it. There is a conspiracy of silence about hatred, its function and its meaning.

I will make of my life a High Priest of Truth.

I let you find all those polytheistic truths yourself; life in them, find the joy in them, and even sorrow. But in these joys and sorrows rest content with the thought that they give meaning to our world.

Bilim dünyay? anlamaya çal???r; dinler(ve felsefeler) ise genellikle insan ya?am?na bir anlam verme görevini üstlenmi?lerdir. ?ki taraf da kendi alanlar?nda kalmak ko?uluyla, din ile bilim birbirlerini ayd?nlatabilirler.

A guy needs something to give his life a reason or what's the point of living?