Quotes About Meaning

Continuându-ÅŸi lectura, Domnul Smith, plesc?ie.

Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver.

PUPIL: Are the roots of words square? PROFESSOR: Square or cube. That depends. PUPIL: I've got a toothache.

There is no reason for anything. If I knew, if I could see, could understand, I should return to silence and night. I think that if what impels me to live could be explained to me I should stop living.

dve stvari su za mene neprihvatljive: biti ro?en i onda umreti. samo to nisam tražio, i to nikako ne prihvatam.

He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!

Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: "For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions." 14

It is not enough to probe the question of what the text is saying. It is equally important to discover why it is saying what it says. The question of why is most often the context for the transition into homiletical form.

ANNA [After a pause dreamily.] Funny! I do feel sort of nutty, to-night. I feel old. CHRIS [Mystified. ] Old? ANNA Sure like I'd been living a long, long time out here in the fog. [Frowning perplexedly.] I don't know how to tell you yust what I mean.

The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

If, after all, there is no truth, how could it be true that there is no truth? If there is no absolute morality, how can you condemn the morality of considering my culture better than another? Relativism made no sense, as Shakespeare clearly saw.

It's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

In God, the life of the flesh became the story of the spirit. I loved that story, no matter what.

Life's funny...You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something—something that really matters—in the end you die for nothing.

Freud, in effect, had declared that all spiritual things were merely symbols of the flesh. In the delivery room, for the first time, it had seemed to me that he had gotten it exactly the wrong way round. Our flesh was the symbol. It was the love that was real. Why,

The ferociously radical-to-the-death Jesus of the Gospels was transformed here into a bland cheerleader for socially acceptable niceness. That made no sense to me. No one ever got himself crucified for organizing a charity golf tournament.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man.

The road to heaven isn't death, Tom. It's life.

Mike had seen some pretty awful things in the wars in the Middle East, I guess. He'd learned there was not too much stuff in life that needed to be taken seriously. Just the right stuff. Just enough.

In the end, life becomes literature, and literature has meaning because life has meaning.

I knew it wasn't about things being fair. It wasn't about them being easy or safe. It was about who I was, who I wanted to be, what I wanted my life to be about, what I wanted to stand for, live for, even die for if I had to. It was about what I wanted to make out of this soul God gave me.

Even the lowest form of humor—maybe especially the lowest, the most basic form—suggests that we were intended to be something higher than ourselves.

Sorrow is the price of love in a world where nothing lasts. Isn't it?" He smiled back at her fondly. "Yes. Yes, I suppose it is." "Without love and sorrow we're just objects in space," said Molly. Winter was surprised by a surge of emotion. He pressed his lips together.

Meaning is above nature—it is supernatural—because it is the idea that nature expresses.