Quotes About Meaning

Never confuse movement with action.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Do I know what a man is ? Do I know how a man is supposed to die ? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived ?

Though the bored person hungers for things to happen to him, the disheartening fact is that when they do he empties them of the very meaning he unconsciously yearns for by using them as distractions. In popular culture even the second com- ing would become just another 'barren' thrill to be watched on television till Milton Berle comes on.

There are moments that keep themselves in our memories: unexpected flashpoints of meaning we don't even recognize until the years, loves, worries have tempered the cloudy chatter of everyday concerns and have left only the brightest flashes: permanent, unchanging images that will most conspicuously blaze at that final, brilliant moment when our lives are said to pass before our dimming eyes.

Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence.

The goal of life is to gain an idea of what life is. In the absolute sense, of course, that changes nothing, according to the priests - but it helps our journey.

Die Politik jeglicher Färbung ist mir seit langem zuwider, und ich marschiere hinter keiner Fahne mehr her. Auch ist die Erdrevolution mit politischen Mitteln nicht zu bewältigen. Sie dienen höchstens zur Garnierung des Vulkanrandes, falls sie nicht die Entwicklung sogar vorantreiben.

What is the meaning of the immense silence that surrounds the dead?

Irgendwie drängt sich auch dem ganz einfachen Gemüt die Ahnung auf, daß sein Leben in einen ewigen Kreislauf geschaltet, und daß der Tod des einzelnen gar kein so bedeutungsvolles Ereignis ist.

Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

Denn nicht darauf kommt es an, daß eine neue politische oder soziale Schicht die Macht ergreift, sondern darauf, daß ein neues, allen großen historischen Gestalten ebenbürtiges Menschentum den Machtraum sinnvoll erfüllt.

The primary concern of mathematics is number, and this means the positive integers…. Mathematics belongs to man, not God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer exists, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself.

Brouwer's criticisms of classical mathematics were concerned with what I shall refer to as "the debasement of meaning".

En lisant, on rencontre des phrases sismiques.

Maybe all that I am in this world and all that I have been and done comes down to nothing more than being a touch of color in a prosaic world. Even that is something."

Menulis fiksi adalah menuangkan perasaan dan semangat hidup dalam untaian kata-kata di atas kertas-sebuah usaha tanpa akhir untuk mendapatkan makna-makna yang berbeda

Menulis fiksi adalah usaha untuk menciptakan tokoh-tokoh rekaan dan kejadian-kejadian penuh makna dalam batas-batas sempit dunia kecil yang aku kenal.

Whether an honest performer wishes to convey the truth or whether a dishonest performer wishes to convey a falsehood, both must take care to enliven their performances with appropriate expressions, exclude from their performances expressions that might discredit the impression being fostered, and take care lest the audience impute unintended meanings.

a sense, what is happy about a happy ending is that it says things will go on. Tragedy is the opposite. It ruptures continuity. The tragic event seems to bring the curtain down inexorably. That is perhaps tragedy's definitive condition.

To say what one wants to say is a magnificent act of creation, easily overlooked because people talk so much.