Quotes About Meaning

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You AreBelieve In Yourself.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

All history is contemporary history.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

The tears of God are the meaning of history

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.