Quotes About Meaning

Over time Ficino, Colet, and their colleagues raised the art of recovering a corrupt text's lost meaning to a science, which they called philology. Cleaning up and clearing up the written works of antiquity became an Italian, and Florentine, specialty, as philology uncovered new or startling meanings in even the most familiar documents

Even the name is not his real one. His given name was Aristocles. Plato, from the Greek for "wide" or "broad," was probably a family nickname.

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

Wat is dat toch aan een mens dat het idee dat alles eindig is en uiteindelijk toch zal verzinken in anderhalve kuub aarde hem niet bij voorbaat moedeloos maakt een kort na zijn geboorte al bij de pakken neer doet zitten? ?Japin

Het is niks en het is alles. Meer stelt geluk nu eenmaal niet voor. Ik heb het gekend, daar gaat het om. Gek dat het geheugen zo veel minder indruk maakt dan ellende.

Ik antwoordde dat ik mij niets mannelijkers voor kon stellen dan hoop houden op het onmogelijke.

Chris Scalet, the former CIO at Merck for many years, "I would always start the conversation in terms of what is the meaning for the business. They are never IT conversations or IT projects; they are always business enabler projects.

It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

He hugged the thought that a great part of what he had invented was in the true sense of the word occult: page after page might have been read aloud to the uninitiated without betraying the inner meaning.

Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good; but the supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. The merely carnal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a great saint. Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

Because of the hand, the sign of the mano in fica. That gesture is now only used by Italians.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

What am I doing here?

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

So much the worse for the wood if it finds that it has become a violin, and I feel nothing but contempt for those ignoramuses who argue over things that they know nothing about.

Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos.

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?

La realtà di una notte, e anzi neppure quella di un'intera vita umana, non significano, al tempo stesso, anche la loro più profonda verità ». « E nessun sogno » disse egli con un leggero sospiro « è interamente un sogno ».

One should use common words to say uncommon things

Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.