Quotes About Meaning

Arta, presupun, r?mâne apanajul exclusiv al încep?torilor ori al celor hot?râÈ›i s? nu mai ias? din impas, mulÈ›umindu-se cu surogatul Realit??ii Absolute, cu simboluri, în loc de ceea ce semnific?, È™i cu reÈ›ete elegant compuse, în locul dineului propriu-zis.

Exultante ante el pensamiento de que se hallaba solo, enzarzado en una lucha heroica contra el orden de las cosas; animado por la embriagadora conciencia de su significación e importancia individual.

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

modo de hacerlo por sí mismo. Ése es el sentido, supongo, del ritual tibetano: alguien que esté ahí sentado todo el tiempo y diciéndonos qué es qué.

Unowned, the Fourth Brandenburg had an intensity of beauty, a depth of intrinsic meaning, incomparably greater than anything he had ever found in the same music when it was his private property.

Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.

Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.

F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad - namely a kind of reverential insensibility, a stupor of the spirit, an inward deafness to the meaning of the sacred words.

Those who detect no meaning in the world generally do so because, for one reason or another, it suits their books that the world should be meaningless.

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

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed power to them!

Âdem'in yarat?ld??? günün sabah?nda gördüklerini görüyordum: Ç?plak varoluÅŸ mucizesini, anbean yenilenen mucizeyi. Nas?l, iyi mi? diye sordu biri. Ne iyi ne de deÄŸil, dedim. Sadece öyle.

All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably human, one travels comfortable and secure, contriving to forget that all round and below and above them stretches the blind mass of earth, endless and unexplored.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.

It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion , my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon me, growled abruptly: Semen is God. Unwilling to excite him further, I replied: Sir, though I understand perfectly what you mean by Semen, I am unacquainted with the connotation which you attach to the term God.

The keystone… some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus… some even IAO… but in truth, O seeker, it is Thy-SELF.

Who hath the how is careless of the why

quizá, después de todo, baste con una buena compañía para sentir que hemos tenido una buena vida.

So descending into Hell was just a waste of time?' cried Esteban.

Prison, the supreme trap . . . where a language without words finally reveals to him the expiatory meaning of these last days.

I am endlessly grateful to you for the mere fact of your existence. I tested myself – this is not an illness, not an obsessive idea – this is love, with which God rewarded me for some reason.

You must understand that your daughter's illness is indifference to life, and nothing more....

He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation.