Quotes About Meaning

I was asking about lust, wasn't I? I was fairly certain of it. But isn't love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

Blast Cecil!" said Eldric. "You have my permission," I said.

That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble.

How many bones did he set?" I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose. There was a pause. "Twenty-seven," said Father. There was a question mark in that pause. "How many bones are in the hand?" Another pause. "Twenty-seven," said Eldric.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

Word magic. If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

Emotions may be slippery, but they are also by far the most salient aspect of our lives. They give meaning to everything.

The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop "sleeping furiously." There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God.

Emotions infuse everything with meaning and are the main inspiration of cognition, also in our lives.

When we are considering species like the apes, which are aptly known as "anthropoids" (humanlike), however, anthropomorphism is in fact a logical choice. Dubbing an ape's kiss "mouth-to-mouth contact" so as to avoid anthropomorphism deliberately obfuscates the meaning of the behavior. It would be like assigning Earth's gravity a different name than the moon's, just because we think Earth is special.

The reality is that we are bodies born from other bodies, bodies feeding other bodies, bodies having sex with other bodies, bodies seeking a shoulder to lean or cry on, bodies traveling long distances to be close to other bodies, and so on. Would life be worth living without these connections and the emotions they arouse? How happy would we be, especially given that happiness, too, is an emotion?

For me words have a charge. I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question-mark.

I stop there, for who can tell me what beauty is?

New" national, international, or global emergences create an unsettling sense of transition, as if history is at a turning point; and it is in such incubational moments—Antonio Gramsci's word for the perceived "newness" of change—that we experience the palimpsestical imprints of past, present, and future in peculiarly contemporary figures of time and meaning.

A first sign of the beginning of knowledge is the wish to die.

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

All language is but a poor translation.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Knowledge is the arrival (wusûl ) of the soul at the meaning (manâ) of a thing." Qinâlîzâdeh, who considers this the best definition known to him, explains that "when the arrival of the soul at the mean- ing of a thing comes, knowledge of that thing comes, in that the soul comes to it.

Proof of Your existence? There is nothing but.

Más vale ser un animal de un compañia que un animal para carne.

We are sent into this world for some end. It is our duty to discover by close study what this end is and when we once discover it to pursue it

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?