Quotes About Meaning

The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.

Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called "ultimate concerns," unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked both epistemological methods and accountability, and that drew nutty people, or drove them nuts.

Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

It's a long silence but far from empty.

Lenguaje auténtico me parece a mí aquel en el que la palabra y la cosa coinciden»

Once I could no longer find a way to theologically maintain God and hold onto the significance of my historical moment, letting go of God was natural.

The whole concept of 'the perfect meal' is ludicrous. I knew already that the best meal in the world, the perfect meal, is very rarely the most sophisticated or expensive one....Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Nairobi means 'cool water' in Maasai.

He's an idiot-savant with whom God has serious, frequent and intimate conversations.

Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

the whatness of Allbook.

English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. That sort of thing could sap all the strength and the goodness out of a chelloveck.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

And so I hunger for something that is permanent, something that will last forever. Truth, I am told, is a thing that will last forever.

In Buddhism, the eight emblems would refer to the eight marks of good fortune on the sole of Buddha's foot—wheel, conch shell, umbrella, canopy, lots flower, jar, pair of fishes, and mystic signs—which, in turn, were symbols of the organs in Buddha's body.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

I did not, however, as yet see him as one of those symbolic figures, of whom most people possess at least one example, if not more, round whom the past and the future have a way of assembling.

Maclintick did not answer. He removed the cork from a bottle, the slight 'pop' of its emergence appearing to em-body the material of a reply to his wife, at least all the reply he intended to give.

I'm not a religious chap. I don't know anything about that sort of thing. But there must be something beyond all this sex business.' 'Yes.' 'You think so?' 'Oh yes. Quite likely. Why not?' 'But what?' 'I can't help.' 'You can't.