Quotes About Meaning

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert on us.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

Don't for heaven's sake , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

it's quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is it the writer, who crafted it? The characters, who carry the plot forward? Or you, the reader, who breathes life into them? Or perhaps none of the three can exist without the other. Perhaps without this magical combination, a story would be nothing more than words on a page.

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

Appreciate what you have now, because there may be no tomorrow. If your life span is decreasing every day, what are you doing now to appreciate what you have left? What gives your life meaning?

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.

Everyone's surprised by death. Which is kind of ridiculous when you think about it. It's not exactly a spoiler. But I think that what really shocked me is how many people can't see the shape of the life they've lived until they get to the very end of it.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

And if you don't find what you're looking for? At Roy's question Addie looked up. Then all I've lost is time.

Who we are is about not what we do, but why we tell ourselves we do it.

This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.