Quotes About Meaning

All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! He prayed, and prayed aloud, no longer terrified at the sound of his own voice, for he fell into a sort of ecstasy.

Il emportait un trésor de pieuses pensées, pourlesquelles le contact des folles joies de la mascherata eût été une profanation.

porque las oraciones para el hombre que es dichoso son a veces palabras vacías de sentido, hasta que el dolor viene a explicar al infortunio ese lenguaje sublime con que nos habla Dios.

The truth is that you are afraid.' 'Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.

man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you?—do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?" Villefort's

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a how answer to what is really a why question.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

A private meaning is in fact no meaning at all. Meaning is only possible in communication: a word which meant something to one person only would really be meaningless. It is the same with our aims and actions; their only meaning is their meaning for others. Every human being strives for significance; but people always make mistakes if they do not see that their whole significance must consist in their contribution to the lives of others. An

We are self-determined by the meaning we give to our experiences; and there is probably something of a mistake always involved when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. There

It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy.

I believe,' he thought. 'I have faith.' He jaunted again and failed again. 'Faith in what?' he asked himself, adrift in limbo. 'Faith in faith,' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

Faith in faith," he answered himself. "It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

No es necesario tener nada en qué creer. Basta con creer que en algún sitio hay algo digno de creer en ello.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Other people's judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.