Quotes About Meaning

But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...

Poate p?rea ciudat, dar cele mai apropiate de realitate sunt întotdeauna operele literare considerate a fi cel mai puÅ£in adev?rate. S-ar putea ca realitatea în totalitatea ei s? fie întotdeauna mult prea puÅ£in demn? de a fi înregistrat?, prea lipsit? de sens sau prea oribil? pentru a r?mâne neliteraturizat?.

If only good intentions were enough to make good poetry!

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

Words are the thread on which we string our experiences.

Destruir su condicionamiento ante la muerte con aquella indecente explosión de dolor, como si la muerte fuese algo horrible, como si la vida de una persona pudiera llegar a importar tanto!

Özgür ve insan olmak istemiyor musunuz? Ä°nsanl?k ve özgürlüÄŸün ne olduÄŸunu anlam?yor musunuz? Hiddetten ak?c? konuÅŸuyor, sözcükleri kolayca ve h?zla geliyordu. Anlam?yor musunuz? diye tekrarlad?, ama sorusuna yan?t alamad?. Peki öyleyse, diyerek sert bir tonda devam etti. Size öÄŸreteyim, isteseniz de istemeseniz de sizi özgür k?laca??m.

How can anyone take yes for an answer?" he countered. "Yes is just pretending, just positive thinking. The facts, the basic and ultimate facts, are always no. Spirit? No! Love? No! Sense, meaning, achievement? No!

ToÅ£i oamenii care ÅŸtiu s? citeasc? au puterea de a se dep??i pe ei înÅŸiÅŸi, de a multiplica în mod creator modurile lor de existen??, au puterea s? fac? în aÅŸa fel încît viaÅ£a lor s? fie interesant? ÅŸi plin? de semnificaÅ£ie.

God's best joke, so far as he himself was concerned, was not being there. Simply not there. Neither God nor the devil. For if the devil had been there, God would have been there too. All that was there was the memory of a sordid disgusting stupidity and now an enormous knockabout. First an affair of dust-bins and then a farce. But that was what the devil really was: the spirit of dust-bins. And God? God in that case would be simply the absence of dust-bins.

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

Can you say something about nothing? That's what it finally boils down to. I try and I try.

Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

Pero mejor que las fórmulas mágicas de Mitsima porque aquello significaba algo más, porque le hablaba a él; le hablaba maravillosamente, de una manera solo a medias comprensible, con un poder mágico, bellísimo, de Linda.

Simboliai ir be spalv? atlieka savo darb?

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations. Out of the same documents and monuments and works of art, every epoch invents its own Middle Ages, its private China, its patented and copyrighted Hellas.

In nature, as in work of art, the isolation of an object tends to invest it with absoluteness, to endow it with that more-than-symbolic meaning which is identical with being.

comment savez-vous si la terre n'est pas l'enfer d'une autre planète

Bedelsiz hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur. MutluluÄŸun bedelinin ödenmesi gerekir. Siz bu bedeli ödüyorsunuz Bay Watson; ödüyorsunuz, çünkü güzellikle fazla ilgileniyorsunuz. Ben de gerçekle fazla ilgilenmiÅŸtim; ben de bedelini ödedim.

God as a sense of warmth about the heart, God as exultation, God as tears in the eyes, God as a rush of power or thought—that was all right. But God as truth, God as 2 + 2 = 4—that wasn't so clearly all right.

No basta que las frases sean buenas; también debe ser bueno lo que se hace con ellas.