Quotes About Meaning

It is no longer possible to think in our day other than in the void left by man's disappearance.

The body is given meaning and wholly constituted by discourse. The body vanishes as a biological entity and becomes instead a socially constituted product which is infinitely malleable and highly unstable.

Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Kafamda doÄŸruluÄŸunu kan?tlad???m bir ÅŸey olduÄŸu için yazm?yorum. Yazmak, baÅŸta fark edemediÄŸim bir ÅŸeyi sonunda bulmam? saÄŸl?yor.

other hand, any act constitutive of signification

As a result, we must entirely reverse the traditional idea of the author. We are accustomed, as we have seen earlier, to saying that the author is the genial creator of a work in which he deposits, with infinite wealth and generosity, an inexhaustible world of significations. We are used to thinking that the author is so different from all other men, and so transcendent with regard to all languages that, as soon as he speaks, meaning begins to proliferate, to proliferate indefinitely.

All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning -- not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.

at man's height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying

only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

What good was living if a man didn't have a family?

Everything that has meaning is the result of struggle and sacrifice, and is worth fighting for.

My own emotional feeling is that life has a purpose—ultimately, I'd guess that the purpose it has is the purpose that we've given it and not a purpose that came out of any cosmic design.

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.

Margaret Geller, a professor at Harvard University, said, "I guess my view of life is that you live your life and it's short. The thing is to have as rich an experience as you possibly can. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to do something creative. I try to educate people.

Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationships, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.

In altre parole, uno degli scopi fondamentali delle emozioni è fornirci una scala di valori, in modo da poter scegliere che cosa è importante, costoso, bello o prezioso. In assenza di emozioni tutto ci sembrerebbe uguale, quindi ci ritroveremmo nella situazione paralizzante di non riuscire a compiere una scelta. Gli scienziati stanno quindi cominciando a capire che le emozioni, lungi dall'essere un lusso, sono uno dei fondamenti dell'intelligenza.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everything that we call chance today won't make sense anymore. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.

Es expresivo y cambiante el lenguaje de las campanas; su vibración es capaz de acentos hondos y graves y livianos y agudos y sombríos. Nunca las campanas dicen lo mismo. Y nunca lo que dicen lo dicen de la misma manera.

Pero todo el mundo sabe que la vida no vale la pena de ser vivida. En el fondo, no ignoraba que morir a los treinta años o a los setenta importa poco, pues, naturalmente, en ambos casos, otros hombres y otras mujeres vivían y así durante miles de años. En suma, nada podría ser más claro. Era siempre yo quien moriría, ahora o dentro de veinte años.

Impeccable comes from the Latin pecatus, which means "sin." The im in impeccable means "without," so impeccable means "without sin.

Bitmi? bir ?eyin pe?inden ko?man?n manas? ne?