Quotes About Meaning

Lo que realmente da forma a nuestra vida es el significado que damos a las cosas. ANTHONY ROBBINS, ORADOR MOTIVACIONAL

We have truth in order not to die of art.

It's a palindrome. Sator. Arepo. Tenet. Opera. Rotas.

I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.

Bethany. "That's biblical. In the Holy Land. It means 'house with an answer.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.

But, I don't know what my purpose is," a lot of people tell me, as if someone forgot to tell them what it is. Those people may wait forever to be told how to live and what to live for.

Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.

we face the woeful prospect that we're intelligent creatures living in a meaningless world.

After … all the philosophy and science that we've laboured on for centuries, it's becoming very hard to find a story we can buy.

I]t's through our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness.

Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities—yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.

It's in our very trying to define and arrange things for ourselves – trying to identify and assign meaning to things – that we end up creating a world that is ultimately meaningless.

An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.

The woman speaks, stops, then after what must have been a long speech by the person on the other end of the line, says, ... just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. Mirabelle cannot fathom the meaning of this sentence, as she has been in pain her whole life, and yet it remains unchanged.

career in the irrational world of creativity not only made sense but had moral purpose.

Vivir de un modo congruente con nuestros valores es un viaje que no termina nunca; dura toda la vida.

Cuando [los libros] te pertenecen, y son tuyos —declaró—, y simplemente forman parte de tu vida, todo eso contribuye a crear un sentimiento... de que los libros deberían formar parte de tu vida.»

Name-calling will make you an enemy, not an ally, and if that is your objective, then persuasion is probably not what you were after in the first place.

Timelessness again, the house like a secret temple as dust built up on things that were never meant to have dust on them - Clee's toothbrush and hairdryer and left-out-of-the-box CDs and deodorant on the bathroom window ledge. Ordinary things carefully kept in place because the last person to touch them would never put a cup down on the edge of the table again, or ever leave a book half-read.

be one of the key functions of the lab conference. In Dunbar's research, outsiders working on different problems were much less likely to dismiss the apparent error as useless noise. Coming at the problem from a different perspective, with few preconceived ideas about what the "correct" result was supposed to be, allowed them to conceptualize scenarios where the mistake might actually be meaningful.

Emoticons as a new class of oversignifying precision grammar.

Words are just bits of information, but language is the full code. It's wired into every stage of meaning-making, from basic emotions all the way up to abstract thought. Once you can speak a language, you can feel in that language. It's automatic. It creates empathy.