Quotes About Meaning

Ein glückliches und ein sinnerfülltes Dasein sind deckungsgleich.

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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

The mountain, as Evola describes it in these essays, is portrayed as the guardian of the initiatory threshold over which anyone who wants to be initiated must cross at least once in a lifetime; otherwise it's better never to have been born, because the meaning of life is found only through realizing oneself. But we realize ourselves only by putting ourselves to the test.

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning.

I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning. It is meaning that drives most people forward into time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.

There are two distinct methods of interpreting the Quran. The first, tafsir, is primarily concerned with elucidating the literal meaning of the text, while the second, ta'wil, is more concerned with the hidden, esoteric meaning of the Quran.

The origin of the religious impulse, in other words, is not rooted in our quest for meaning or our fear of the unknown. It is not born of our involuntary reactions to the natural world. It is not an accidental consequence of the complex workings of our brains. It is the result of something far more primal and difficult to explain: our ingrained, intuitive, and wholly experiential belief that we are, whatever else we are, embodied souls.

Porque Kafka descubre un nuevo modo de leer: la literatura le da forma a la experiencia vivida, la constituye como tal y la anticipa.

Pienso, luego existo. De acuerdo, pero no tenía un centavo. Todas las otras pérdidas tenían un sentido trágico, una cualidad, digamos así, simbólica: la lengua natal, la patria, los amigos. Pero ¿y el dinero? Sin dinero ¿Cómo iba a hacer, no ya para pensar sino, más directamente, para existir?

Cómo podía ser que nadie comprendiera? se había preguntado Tardewski. ¿O sólo leemos lo que ya hemos leído, una y otra vez, para buscar en las palabras lo que sabemos que está en ellas, sin que sorpresa alguna pueda variar el sentido?

La ética es como el amor. Se vive en presente, las consecuencias no importan. Si uno piensa en el pasado es porque ya perdió la pasión...

Lo que en el sueño no salió fue el título, dijo. Ponele: Retrato del artista, dijo Renzi. No, dijo Marconi, se trata de eso por ahí, pero ese título es demasiado explícito. En un poema que trata sobre el artista, la palabra artista no tiene que aparecer y menos en el título. ¿Es una ley o no es una ley? En literatura, dijo, lo más importante nunca deber ser nombrado.

But when I asked if she was behind 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' she said, 'Absolutely. That's my song. Every time I hear it, I'm right back with Mick in the flat. Music can't tell time.

Laudant illa, sed ista legunt.

Vvere est cgitre. (Cicero Tusc. 5.111.)

When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.

And, Freedom, was I free?

Frith meant us to get back," replied Holly. "That's the real reason why we're here.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

We can start working with time, if you wish, till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to BEGIN to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love

Peki bundan sonra ne olacak? Nereye gidiyoruz? Cennet diye bir yer yok mu? -Hay?r Jonathan öyle bir yer yok. O ne bir yer, ne de bir zaman. Cennet, kendinde kusursuzluÄŸu bulmakt?r.