Quotes About Meaning

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations. It is thus we should judge Muad'Dib.

A great burden for one word, Lord. Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

There were forty Fremen—she and Paul made it forty-two.

Bir ?eyin yoklu?u, varl???ndan daha fazla ?ey ifade eder.

What is it you really want to know, Siona? What you believe! Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now-I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

I can say God, but that is not my God. That is only a noise and no more potent than any other noise.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

A spirit differs from a material thing by having no parts. Once we have mastered the meaning of this, we are close to our goal.

Whatever the soul in charity loves, it loves for what of God is in it, the amount of God's goodness it expresses or mirrors. This is true love, since it means loving things or persons not for what we can get out of them but for what God has put into them, not for what they can do for us but for what is real in them: it means loving things or persons for what they are, and it is rooted in loving God for what He is.

The whole of this discourse, from the fourteenth chapter of St. John to the seventeenth, should be read and read again: everything is in it.

Ak nebudeme žiadaÃ…Â¥ vesmír o veci, ktoré nám nemôže daÃ…Â¥, nezdrví nás realita. Nepotrebujeme jediný a definitívny dôvod života. Posta?í aj ?ubovo?né množstvo menÅ¡ích.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.

I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

And actually it is not you at all I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

It isn't easy to understand exactly what she is saying, for one doesn't know whether she is speaking ironically or seriously, it's mostly serious, but sounds ironic. - "Stop interpreting everything!" said K.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.

The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.

I am nothing but literature, and can and want to be nothing else.