Quotes About Meaning

Si nuestra especie tiene un alma, ésta reside en las humanidades.

A spider spinning its web intends, whether conscious of the outcome or not, to catch a fly. That is the meaning of the web.

With all its quirks, irrationality, and risky productions, and all its conflict and inefficiency, the biological mind is the essence and the very meaning of the human condition.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

All grammars leak.

It's the hardest addiction of all,' said Patrick. 'Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do not matter, so a philosopher may wonder why he invents cases that cannot occur in order to determine what must be the case.

The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much 'relevance'. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive.

with meaning, honor, respect, and reintegration into community. When we practice these aright—and it is possible—we fill our communities with honorable, noble, wise elders who in turn serve and mature the society and its most needy.

Yes. Despite the ultimate mystery of the universe there's still one small truth we can live by. Choice. Never merely to take what we are given or inherit, but to choose. It may not seem like much but it's the difference between meanings and memories that disappear in the sand, and something that doesn't. Choice is the arrow. For then, at least, we play a part in making ourselves.

It seems that's it for me and what's a soul to do then? What's a soul to do?" "Simply go on loving her." "So I seem to be doing but what's the sense of it? Where does it lead?" The frail hand tightened on his and then was gone. Haj Harun knelt in front of him and held him by the shoulders, his face serious. "You're still young, Prester John. Don't you see it leads nowhere? It's an end in itself.

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either.

To get at the Eternal strength of things, and fearlessly to make strong songs of it, Is, to my mind, the mission of that man the world would call a poet.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living .

Accordingly, as principles and rules, such resolutions, whatever context holds that execute nothing if that cannot enforce the action without distinctions.

Don't search me on social media; search me in your heart since it matters.

Everyone visits with each other for its purpose.

Factually, nowhere in the world is justice gratis; indeed, what is not gratis cannot be justice.

Father Day, I feel and realize not that since my all the Days are for others; what establishes only this one Day? -

Life owns own purpose, each one of us, breathes and struggles under that philosophy; thus, it defines; indeed, a conflict of self-interest in all dimensions.

Love is a fulfilment of life; without that, life is nothing.

Meaning, beauty, and pathos of words describe and speak its quality itself and touch the sensitive hearts and minds without hindrances.

Molten gold thrown of ground solidifies into an ungainly mass, but put in moulds becomes attractive jewelry. Similarly, unarticulated thoughts reduced to writing will be nothing but meaningless jumble; whereas, properly reasoned and structured thoughts expressed in writing become meaningful, and if well written, can become masterpieces of literature.