Quotes About Meaning

And at the end of life, what does it all matter? We grow old and the young look at us and can never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love.

Why do they put cows over the gates, sir? For the same reason we put images of a tortured man in our churches. Religion. You ask too many questions, Sharpe.

I was screaming still, but screaming my own name now, and Serpent-Breath was singing her hunger-song and I was a lord of war.

So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly.

What had the Reverend Venables said? That promises in the playhouse were like kisses on May Day. I had just been kissed.

Ricordo che la sera che ci siamo conosciuti lei disse che qui sperava di fare un uso migliore della sua vita. C'è riuscito?» «È quello che si dovrebbe sempre fare». «Mi dica, che cosa vuole dalla vita?» «Ordine, valore, soddisfazione, amore», disse Levin. «L'amore all'ultimo posto?» «L'amore in ogni momento».

I care for life, for humanity; and you are a part of it that has come my way and been built into my house. What more can you or anyone ask?

Dis-lui que les livres ont la puissance que leur accorde leur lecteur et que celle-ci peut être sans fin.

De literatuur of het leven? Het leven want de literatuur; het leven leeft voor mij pas echt, het is pas echt diepgaand en lijfelijk het leven, wanneer ik weet dat ik er woorden aan zal kunnen ontrukken.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

for humans, death meant the end of everything. They lived in a condition of uncertainty, and maybe that was what made their lives so valuable. No human knew what would happen to his soul after death, so they had to make the best of things in life. And

The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.

History is not the past as it really was. It's the shape we give it.

Cho ??n khi cÆ¡n gi?n h?t hÆ¡i và nh?ng câu h?i h?t quan tr?ng. Tôi Ä'ã làm gì, không làm gì, cô Ä'ã làm gì tôi - Ä'ó chính là cuá»™c ??i tôi mà.

Que história triste, pensei durante muito tempo. Não que eu pense agora que ela é feliz. Mas penso que é verdadeira e, diante disso, perguntar se é triste ou feliz é algo que não faz sentido.

La historia no es el pasado tal como fue realmente, sino la forma que le damos

Ich schreibe aus demselben Grund, aus dem andere lesen: Man will nicht nur ein Leben leben.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The reason is clearly that the human heart as modern civilisation has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied, because it feels deply, perhaps even unconsciously, that it has somehow missed the meaning of life, that perhaps others, but not we ourselves, have secured the good things which nature offers man's enjoyment.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important.

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now