Quotes About Meaning

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life?

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I'd rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.