Quotes About Meaning

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

What shall I do with the night and the day, with this life and this death?

An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver.

Self-love is an ending, she said, and not a beginning. Love means love of the thing sung, not of the song or the singing.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough.

What so wild as words are?

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

You never know what life means till you die:Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live,Gives it whatever the significance.

Without love, our earth is a tomb

The purpose of life is to have a life with purpose.

The purpose of life is life of a purpose.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose

Ideas give life meaning. Our minds need ideas the way our bodies need food. We are starved for visions, hungry for understanding. We are caught up in the routines of life, distracted occasionally by those activities we call "recreation" and "entertainment." What we as a nation have lost is the joy of thinking, the challenge of understanding, the inspirations as well as the consolations of philosophy.

The name of a variable, function, or class, should answer all the big questions. It should tell you why it exists, what it does, and how it is used. If a name requires a comment, then the name does not reveal its intent.

A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

But what does building socialism mean if we translate this formula into concrete class language? Building socialism in the USSR means overcoming our Soviet bourgeoisie by our own forces in the course of a struggle."[

Not only did such an ideology legitimize the young man's resentment against the various forms of established authority, it identified his enemies as history's, bestowed higher meaning on his urge to live a life of combat against forces of evil, and sanctified his quest for vindictive triumphs along the way.

The gilding holds the eye just long enough to let God enter the soul. The two-dimensional image does not require interpretation, and therefore doesn't stand between you and God the way it does in three-dimensional western art.