Quotes About Meaning

The ones who didn't lose faith found a meaning beneath the horror." "What was the meaning?" "They understood that the powers of evil must have felt threatened to unleash such malice against people of faith.

I was about to say that you were not created for this lovelessness.

All grief would slip away, and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning of his existence and hungered only for milk.

Do you see these wounds? These bruises?" "Yes." "They are my joy." "Pain is your joy?" "The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

Cher Paul, the artist must always ask himself, am I painting the surface only, or am I revealing the eternal soul of my subjects? Without this, we only add to the agony. We too would be merely using the prostitutes—and worse, for we do not pay them.

Ah yes, but unity can be authentic only if it is founded upon truth. We cannot pretend that there are two conflicting truths, both of which are right. This is madness. It destroys the interior unity of the human person and the meaning of personhood.

Perhaps there are places within us, places of true home, that do not yet exist and are carved from the stone of our hearts only by suffering. Perhaps. Who will tell me if this is true? For if it is not, then I am subject to the cruelest delusion of all. Yet, if I were to know, I would cease to be vulnerable, and I might make my home in exile.

Why waste a life in search of an epitaph?

Por qué desperdiciar la vida buscando un epitafio? «Te recordamos con cariño.» ¿Quién salvo un idiota quiere algo así cincelado sobre su cabeza? No es más que incontinencia sentimental.

Names are strange and special gifts. There are names you give to yourself and names you show to the world, names that stay for a short while and names that remain with you forever, names that come from things you do and names that you receive as presents from other people. If your name is true, it is who you are.

In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originally wanted the notion for.

In everyday speech, the word intelligence has two distinct meanings. The most familiar meaning is the ability to think and reason. An intelligent person can manage complex information quickly and accurately, as well as generate interesting ideas, effective strategies, and warranted conclusions. A second meaning of the word intelligence is a body of knowledge.

As you grasp for the next rung, remember that ultimately it doesn't matter if you rise or fall. The only thing that was ever meant to satisfy you is God.

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

The world is a confusing place, meaningful and meaningless at once.

Freud said there's no such thing as a joke—a joke is an expression of veiled hostility.

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.

The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea.

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is.

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

Çocuklar gibi kendinizi e?lendirmek ya da h?rsl?lar gibi ya?ama dair talimat bulma amac?yla okumay?n. Hay?r, ya?amak için okuyun." - Flaubert

And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen