Quotes About Meaning

Bohr: You never cared what got destroyed on the way, though. As long as the mathematics worked out you were satisfied. Heisenberg: If something works it works. Bohr: But the question is always, What does the mathematics mean, in plain language? What are the philosophical implications?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

In fundamental respects, the Constitution does not mean what it says. It means what the Supreme Court says it means. Or, more particularly, it means what five Supreme Court justices say it means at any particular time.

When Nouri said that he wanted to be with God, Ibn Arwani said: "First you must learn who 'you' are. Then you must learn what it means to 'want.' What it means to 'be.' Then you must learn what 'God' is. Otherwise, it's just a game. A pretense.

IF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN God and man is even greater than we imagine," said Ryka, "how do we bridge the gap?" "We must learn how to serve," said Nouri. "But what can a man possibly do that would matter to God?" "It's not what he does that matters. It's how he does it." Nouri paused. "Service wears out our sharp edges. And opens the heart.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

Svrha je takozvani život poslije smrti?" "U koji ti ne vjeruješ", rekla je Emmylou. "Naravno da ne!" "Pa ?ega se onda bojiš? Nestanka? Nestaješ svake no?i svojeg života. Pa što onda zna?i ako zavlada trajni mrak? Ti ionako ništa ne?eš znati, po definiciji.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

The same goes for such nonsense sentences as "Time is a concept", "Infinity is a concept", and "God is a concept". Those are all category errors.

Your life matters. Your life has purpose. You were put on this earth to capitalize on your strengths and achieve your destiny.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

Formal-equivalence translations emphasize the similarity in the linguistic forms (such as vocabulary and grammatical structures) between the source language and the target language. Functional-equivalence translations, on the other hand, stress the similarity in linguistic function (meaning) between the two languages.8

Philosophy is an operation that of itself produces nothing; it operates on the basis of truths subtracted from the event.

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.

the idea that the right way of valuing goods and social practices depends on the purposes and ends those practices serve.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

What will matter is not your success but your significance....

When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.

He was giving Gerry that flat stare again, the one that sent spiders crawling into your brain.

Once people no longer fear starvation, they choose to eat for a whole variety of reasons, and these were not so different at the court of the Medici than they are at the food courts of Beverly Hills. Food is much more than a fuel; it is packed with meaning and symbolism. That

and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.

What is truth?" I said. "Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper, something that is profoundly true— on all levels? Not just the literal one. It's like poetry.

When asked if he would raise the capital gains tax even if it meant decreasing revenue, candidate Obama said, "I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness." "Fairness" simply means "what I approve of," a subjective term that seems objective but has no actual inherent meaning.

Our purpose is not to be the answer, but rather the question. To make each day a little brighter and leave the world a better place than we found it. That is the true path, which we all must choose to follow, regardless of whether it leads us beneath the shadow of a heel or the tire of a car. Our purpose is to walk that path with our heads held high, hope in our hearts, and belief that our roles, no matter how small, are integral to the grand design.