Quotes About Meaning

Si el universo es pasajero, es fácil pensar que la vida humana carece de sentido. ¿Por qué tendría que hacer nada en absoluto?

Det med, at universet ser ud til at have en afslutning, lægger naturligvis en dæmper på et eller andet. Alle tanker om evigt liv sætter sig fast i halsen. Men det er ikke noget, der plager mig. Ikke nu. Tværtimod. Jeg føler mig mere levende, end jeg har gjort længe. Pludselig føles det helt fint at have en frist at forholde sig til. Jeg har egentlig altid arbejdet bedst under pres.

Ne postoji ama baš ništa ?emu su potrebni ljudi, osim možda samim ljudima.

Yo no pedí nacer. Nadie lo hizo. El tamaño y la complejidad del universo me hacen sentir muy pequeño y libre de responsabilidades. Me llevan a pensar que lo único que tiene sentido es intentar pasárselo bien.

Spet to z vesoljem. Vse misli prejšne no?i me nekako niso naredile manj umrljivega. ?e je vesolje za?asno si hitro misliš, da je ?loveško življenje nesmiselno. Zakaj bi se soloh ?esa lotil?

The meaning of a work of art is what the artist wants to communicate to his public through the work, by using a specific language. Since every language has its limitations and its problems of expression, there will be obstacles to communicating certain contents: a work's value is to be found in the ingenuity, the originality, and perhaps the economy of the solutions the artist finds to overcome these obstacles.

Ambiguity is telling you something important, if only you took it seriously. If you did not quickly dispatch it as a pathology.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

Beyond a given point man is not helped by more "knowing," but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put it, we must plunge into experience and then reflect on the meaning of it. All reflection and no plunging drives us mad; all plunging and no reflection, and we are brutes.

The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions.

The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

There it was: number 42. Another of Halliday's jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

That was what saved me, I think. Suddenly I'd found something worth doing. A dream worth chasing. For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. A quest to fulfill. A reason to get up in the morning. Something to look forward to.

the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

It was a voice other than Reason that replied, 'You could live. You could be. You could do. There's a purpose you have to fulfil. You'd become more conscious of it every day you keep on living. There's a task for you; a responsibility that is yours and only yours.' 'Good enough,' I said. 'I'll get on with it.

I thought to myself as I heard this, 'Aren't there two kinds of food – one for the body and one for the soul? And of the two, surely the latter is the more satisfying?

But then, why smile? He could not understand why some people smiled when they weren't pleased, or how they'd learned such a smile, or what it was for.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it… Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.