Quotes About Meaning

The correct translation of the phrase ("Et in Arcadia ego") in its orthodox form is, therefore, not "I, too, was born, or lived, in Arcady," but: "Even in Arcady there am I," from which we must conclude that the speaker is not a deceased Arcadian shepherd or shepherdess but Death in person.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

Freedom, Wash, is a word with different meanings to different people," he said, as though I did not know the truth of this better than he.

I tell you what I know. The world's damn beautiful. But it's an accidental beauty. What we do, it's deliberate. It's the one damn consolation you can offer not just you own life, but other lives you ain't even met.

We will make land at Norfolk,' Titch said, as if this was some reassurance. It meant little to me, of course. Titch explained we would be entering Chesapeake Bay, and would therefore soon be leaving the ship. We would also, however, find ourselves subject to the laws of American freedom. 'Freedom, Wash, is a word with different meanings to different people,' he said, as though I did not know the truth of this better than he.

On the one hand we need the image of "the text" in order to focus on anything at all; on the other hand we use the metaphor of "reading" to signal that our apprehension of a text will always be partial, that we never quite reach the "text itself," a realization that has led certain critics to question the very existence of such an object.

Manapság vezetÅ' emberek szeretik vállalni a felelÅ'sséget. Olvasom az újságban, onnét tudom. Vállaljuk a felelÅ'sséget, mondják. Ez egy mondat, mondott mondat. Csak hát a felelÅ'sség vállalása, az nem (csak) egy mondat. Mondatot mondani, arra is van ember. Én, én például azért vagyok, én vagyok azért, hogy mondatokat mondjak.

Most igyekszem valamilyen értelmet csempészni a napomba. Értelmet csempészni – ez is lehet egy foglalkozás. Vajon mi a büntetési tétele? Értelemcsempészés közben lebukott.

They bound themselves covenantally to the yet-to-be-known, in their growing expertise, to invite its gracious disclosure of deeper meaning. They bound themselves to that as-yet-unknown reality in taking up such a journey. What they actually found surprisingly transformed their half-understood inquiries as reality swept in and swept them up.

You must be there with me, Atalanta. I wouldn't be able to say a word if I was alone with him. And we must see him secretly. If my father knew, he'd lock me up again." Again? I wanted to ask what she meant, but with Medea, perhaps there were some riddles better left unanswered.

The eagle is Lord Zeus's bird. We can't just ignore it. Ah, what does it mean ?" "What it means ," I said, smiling, "is that you and I have just seen either the world's most unmistakable omen or the world's most nearsighted eagle.

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?

We no longer plow the land together; today we talk. We have come to glorify verbal communication. I speak; therefore I am. We naively believe that the essence of who we are is most accurately conveyed through words.

the way, when you were still alive, d'you ever go looking for God?" "No," Leehee said, and offered me some gum. "But I didn't really have any reason to.

A word is a lot.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Now she was smiling. "And while you're at it," she said, "here's another one for you. Theodicy. That's another word Leibniz used. As long as you have the dictionary out, you might as well look 'em both up." She sipped her tea. "He wrote a whole book about it, as a matter of fact.

Let your teammates know why they are doing what they're doing. People want to feel that what they are doing is adding value to the client. There are few things more demoralizing than doing something that you and your team leader know is valueless. No one on your team should ever feel, "I've just spent two weeks of my life for nothing.

Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Everything tell me that I need to live a more solitary life. The loveliest and most precious moments of my life are slipping away in amusements which, in truth, bring me nothing but boredom. (Sunday 4 April 1824).

Time had no meaning; life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.

Do you think that life is the most important thing to a person? You don't think it for a moment. You know I don't. I can name a dozen ways of living to which you would prefer death." She