Quotes About Meaning

Egwene struggled visibly, latching onto the smallest part, the most inconsequential, of what Moiraine had said. "How can reading put him in trouble?

Ucapan orang bodoh sama saja dengan debu Rand al'Thor

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know. I am here for my art.

That was one thing he understood about women, Aiel, Two Rivers or whoever; fists on hips meant trouble.

Your humility, Lan Gaidin, has always been more arrogance than most kings could manage with their armies at their backs.

Canluum, Lan paid as little attention to the stares he

language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.

For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed......Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?

Those wonderful coincidences of sound and sense between one language and another were also at work, giving each new term an alluring resonance.

We uncovered a phenomenon we call "the immunity to change," a heretofore hidden dynamic that actively (and brilliantly) prevents us from changing because of its devotion to preserving our existing way of making meaning.

If you want to understand another person in some fundamental way you must know where the person is in his or her evolution...the way in which the person is settling the issue of what is 'self' and what is 'other' essentially defines the underlying logic (or 'psychologic') of the person's meanings.

Intelligence is the ability to take information and make it meaningful.

In accounting', rich dad would say, 'It's not the numbers , but what the numbers are telling you. It's just like words. It's not the words, but the story the words are telling you.

only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

because yes – he likes to 'write' – but to 'do' – to do a particular thing – perhaps on paper (perhaps on canvas – perhaps in stone – perhaps, perhaps in a musical score) – a thing that will stand, a thing that will bear (that will sustain) repeated contemplation: a thing that will sustain long contemplation, and that will (in a 'deep' enough way) reward the beholder.

for life was lived for active memories; the dormant ones lost meaning.

Now that we've got the whole story, he said solemnly, now you can panic.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes much sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

Writing it seemed to have higher quality than not writing it, that was all.

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?

One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

Actually, a root word of technology, techne , originally meant art. The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.

What is the truth and how do you know it when you have it?... How do we really know anything? Is there an I a soul, which knows, or is this soul merely cells coordinating senses?... Is reality basically changing, or is it fixed and permanent?... When it's said that something means something, what's meant by that?