Quotes About Meaning

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.

ASK "WHY?" Asking why you're doing your project will focus you on what matters, your ultimate purpose, and your result. This goes into the box on the right of your project chart.

In Italia lo stomaco ha una valenza metafisica. -En Italia el estómago tiene un valor metafísico-

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Why should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because, I believe, it increases our awareness of our own potentiality.

The sole function of philosophy is to lead us to happiness by way of the shortest possible route.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing--each his own interest.

As a physician, who has been deeply privileged to share the most profound moments of people's lives including their final moments, let me tell you a secret. People facing death don't think about what degrees they have earned, what positions they have held, or how much wealth they have accumulated. At the end, what really matters is who you loved and who loved you. That circle of love is everything, and is a great measure of a past life. It is the gift of greatest worth.

Joy is in the gift of the Church; whatever joy is possible for this sad world to share. Whatever you did against the Church, has been done against joy. I'm not stopping you from calculating the procession of the equinoxes or splitting the atom. But what would it profit you even to create life itself, when you have lost all sense of what life really is?

My secret demon is called: What's the use?

For the most part, our educational systems remain rooted in the outdated and fractured Prussian model, which teaches people to take orders rather than think for themselves. Paired with the technological advances in communications, we are left swimming in an ever-engulfing sea of facts, unable to find meaning, never mind wisdom.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Bookended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end.

Talk is never just words.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Je le revendique. Mon père disait « toute erreur assumé devient un choix artistique ».

The only serious enterprise is living.

It is not that disagreement needs explanation and agreement does not, but that in different contexts disagreement requires different sorts of explanation, and so does agreement.

Yes, sin-ah, without the final yod that is also one of the letters in the name of God.

African peoples were referred to as black long after the word made its appearance in the English language, so it makes no sense to retroactively impose racist connotations on to its everyday usage, and if you do, you're going to drive yourself mad and, I'm sorry to say, everyone else with you

it's like the years are swiftly regressing until the lifetimes between them no longer exist this is not about feeling something or about speaking words this is about being together