Quotes About Meaning

I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren't hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they're probably improving the world more than we acknowledge.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

È il segreto che ti sussurro all'orecchio già da un mese: noi due non siamo vivi! Voglio dire, non in un luogo in cui vigono le leggi ordinarie che regolano i rapporti tra le persone, tantomeno tra uomo e donna. Dove siamo, allora? Non m'interessa saper dove, perché dargli un nome? Sarebbero comunque nomi "loro", nomi tradotti, e con te voglio una costituzione diversa di cui saremo noi a fissare le leggi.

His questions led me to comprehend that I had a rare treasure: life experience.

Un corpuscolo trasparente brillava in me, una scintilla, dorata, luminosa. Lo sapevo: ero io, la mia anima, la mia essenza, il senso della mia esistenza. È nata con me, pensavo, e con me morirà... e non sapevo che avrei potuto sopravviverle a lungo, divenire io stessa un'esiliata, un essere umano inaridito. E una bugiarda... che candidamente senza batter ciglio, osa dire: io.

Och han är död, jag förstår nästan betydelsen av dessa ljud: Barnet är dött. Jag erkänner att dessa ord rymmer en sanning. Han är död. Han är död. Men hans död, hans död är inte död.

Toate povestile sunt legate intr-un mod profund de un mare adevar, chiar daca acesta ramane de neinteles pentru noi.

Non sai di quante allusioni a te sia pieno il mondo.

To kill the heart does not mean to let it dry and wither away, but it means that it has become undivided and gathered

The Chinese represent crisis with two pictographs: danger and opportunity. The

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is therefore assumed to lie in a world external to the observer whose job is to record and faithfully reflect the attributes of objects. This logical empiricism is a pragmatic version of that scientific method which goes under the name of 'logical positivism', and is founded in a particular and very strict view of language and meaning.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.

this question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal.

The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.

It is not always the event itself that is wrong, but the hidden agenda behind it.

This is the meaning of the covenant promise, "I will be the God of your children." The covenant promise does not mean, "I will be the God of your infant children some day, when they grow up, on the condition they believe or have a conversion experience." But the promise means: "I will be the God of your infant children, now, in their infancy, because of my own grace in Jesus Christ and, therefore, some day those who grow up will believe and be converted.

I think I received a new understanding of the meaning of suffering," he wrote Harold DeWolf, "and I came away more convinced than ever before that unearned suffering is redemptive." The imprisonment had not been pleasant, but he did feel that his faith had benefited from the experience.20

All this means, first, is that it's necessary to be very clear about what question you are asking, and, second, that whether data are dark or not will depend on that question. Trite though it may sound, the data you need to collect, the analysis you will undertake, and the answer you will get depend on what you want to know.

Browning, whose verse is famously obscure, was once approached by a woman who asked the meaning of a particular stanza. "Madame," he answered, "when I wrote that only God and I knew what it meant. Now, only God knows.