Quotes About Meaning

But here it is. So pick the bones from that. 'I think we need another tense for dreaming in,' I said, which made an old drunk shake his head and smile.

deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

It's about how we can empower ourselves to bring true meaning to our lives and the lives of others in ways most people would consider impossible.

Well, as the preeminent mythologist Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

Well, as the preeminent mythologist Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that's what the nature of genius is ultimately about.

deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that's what the nature of genius is ultimately about.

Author Philip Dick once wrote, "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that's what the nature of genius is ultimately about.

What does it all mean?" many wonder while chasing purposes they're told are worthwhile, but which feel empty. "What is the purpose of this life?" humans have wondered for millennia, contemplating how insignificant we are in the great cosmic symphony.

It's about how we can empower ourselves to bring true meaning to our lives and the lives of others in ways most people would consider impossible. It's about rising above a life of, as Thoreau said, "quiet desperation" that ends with our songs still in our hearts, and experience the rapture of truly living. It's about saying yes to our adventures.

Where the goal is the what, the purpose is the all-important why. Purpose gives goals meaning. When the intention to make something happen is weak—when you're just not feeling the "fire"—it's not going to happen.

Where the goal is the what, the purpose is the all-important why.

we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

Failing to comprehend the original meaning of these documents guarantees that the original message will be lost in translation and maybe one day even deemed outmoded and irrelevant in modern society.

Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.

We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.

His first word, his first day at junior high. Nonsense things, the deepest, most important poetry of my life.

Dedication Epigraph

If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

All of you want to question everything. Is there any more pointless way of wasting away your life than searching for answers that will bring you nothing

What would you risk dying for—and for whom—is perhaps the most profound question a person can ask themselves. The vast majority of people in modern society are able to pass their whole lives without ever having to answer that question, which is both an enormous blessing and a significant loss.

Moral Psychology is a manifestation in the philosophical discipline of ethical nihilism.

What is philosophy? Albrecht Wellmer, I say, or John McDowell. This is how I know what philosophy is.