Quotes About Meaning

Just like mountain climbing and going to war, then, raising children is an activity that has an uncertain connection to pleasure but has the potential to enhance meaning and

An old joke describes the difference between sacrifice and generosity. For a chicken to bring eggs to breakfast is generosity; for a pig to bring bacon is sacrifice. Generosity gives out of abundance; sacrifice costs us something.

From all this rapid-fire activity—five trillion chemical processes a second—we form patterns of meaning about the world.

Secondly, the meaning of washing denotes that as the sins of the world were passed-onto Jesus with His baptism

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art

The name Azazel is derived from aziz, which means strength, and El, God.

men. "The number of the beast" is "six hundred and three score and six," which according to cabalistic symbolism means "Nero.

When we speak of God as a person, we ought to be conscious of the fact that we use an allegory which, if it were taken literally, can only belittle him.

The poem is born dark; it comes, as the result of a radical individuation, into the world as a language fragment, thus, as far as language manages to be world, freighted with world.

Erst wenn ich dich als Schatten berühre, glaubst du mir meinen Mund, der klettert mit Spät- sinnigem droben in Zeithöfen umher, du stößt zur Heerschar der Zweitverwerter unter den Engeln, Schweigewütiges sternt.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and enroute. — from "The Meridian

A palavra de ir-a-pique que lemos. Os anos, as palavras desde então. Ainda o somos. Sabes, o espaço é infinito, sabes, não precisas de voar, sabes, o que em teu olho se gravou aprofunda-nos a profundeza.

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

the real is actually the intersubjective meaning arrived at by a community in semiosis. One

Some are convinced that the universe has no point. The cosmos is indifferent, deaf to our cries and oblivious to our tears. Human beings are nothing more than molecules in motion—biological organisms trying to survive and reproduce but destined to eventual extinction along with all else in the universe. Is that the story we should believe?

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.

Creation was made to be one big finger pointing you to the One who alone has the ability to satisfy your heart.