Quotes About Meaning

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

Why is it, Mr. Poe, that I would sooner spend an hour with you in the"—again she laughed—"in the gloomiest contemplations than spend another minute speaking of dresses and baubles and the things that make most people happy?

It was not recklessness when you risked nothing, when what you did made no difference to anyone, not even to yourself.

Edgar Allan Poe widzia? kruka jako starego, brzydkiego, z?owrogiego ptaka. W zachodniej literaturze wiele jest takich negatywnych odniesie?. Jednak z symbolami jest tak, jak z innymi rzeczami w ?yciu cz?owieka: co dla jednego jest zbawieniem, dla drugiego mo?e by? gwo?dziem do trumny.

Reward systems, such as those mediated by dopamine, also destabilize during adolescence in order to allow for the creation of new attachments, behaviors, and goals. This search for purpose and meaning makes adolescents more vulnerable to good and bad social influences

contact—emotional networks integrate with sensory and motor systems to connect social and emotional meaning with behaviors.

A filosofia começa no momento em que cessa o divertimento.

If war is the test of reality, than all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.

If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.

The eyes of faith are not always bright. At times they can see only dim shadows, like rough shapes reflected in a worn and dusty mirror. Yet even then, especially then, the faithful are called to trust in the promises of old and to believe that the time and place of their birth are no accident. For faith sees not only that history is meaningful, that it is going someplace, but also understands its own limited role within that history.

If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. That is why geometrically speaking the circle is a one. Everything comes to you from the other. You have to be able to reach the other. If not you are alone…

When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.

It's a terribly trite thing to say, I know, but most of us have to be needed to be happy.

which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

His theory is that life is loss,' said Myrna after a moment. 'Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we'll lose ourselves.

And she knew that that was why drugs were so dangerous. Because they blew the mind. Not the heart. But the mind. And the heart followed. And the soul followed that.

life is loss,' said Myrna after a moment. 'Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we'll lose ourselves.

said Myrna after a moment. 'Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we'll lose ourselves.