Quotes About Meaning

What you can count, doesn't count for much. What you cannot count, counts for everything

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Dictionaries collect our words both to preserve them and to give them back to us, to allow us to see what names we have given to our experience throughout time, and also to discard some of those names and renew them in an ongoing ritual of baptism.... they confirm and invigorate the lifeblood of a language.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Can you say something about nothing?

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.

There was a silence. In spite of their sadness—because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another—the three young men were happy.

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and beautiful truth!

Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.

And to think, Will Farnaby commented, to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.

Una verdad sin interés puede ser eclipsada por una falsedad emocionante.

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In the course of history it has often happened that one or other of the imperfect religions has been taken too seriously and regarded as good and true in itself, instead of as a means to the ultimate end of all religion. The effects of such mistakes are often disastrous.

People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic functions, or when they are not at work, as irresponsible seekers of entertainment. Subjected to this kind of life, individuals tend to feel lonely and insignificant. Their existence cases to have any point of meaning