Quotes About Significance

important—unimportant—unimportant—important—' as if he were trying which word sounded best.

What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines? So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply They are merely conventional signs!

He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter.

Meu nome é Alice, mas...' 'Um nome bem bobo!' Humpty Dumpty a interrompeu com impaciência. 'O que significa?' 'Um nome deve significar alguma coisa?' Alice perguntou ambiguamente 'Claro que deve', Humpty Dumpy respondeu com uma risada curta.

Ritual, art, poesy, drama, music, dance, philosophy, science, myth, religion are all as essential to man as his daily bread: man's true life consists not alone in the work activities that directly sustain him, but in the symbolic activities which give significance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations.

Whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved an entire world.

He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.

But what was the point of living so quietly... you made no noise at all

God has stamped "lifegiver" on all women, regardless of the role we play.

Even dumb objects have their destiny. Rarely given a second thought, they perform their unconsidered duty day by day until their moment arrives and everything seems to hang on their location.

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters

History is the art of giving meaning to the meaningless," said a brilliant German professor (who was later killed by the Nazis).

Certain numerologists in Germany had figured out that the number nine was fateful to German artists. Beethoven, Bruckner, and Mahler each wrote nine symphonies, Wagner nine operas that are still sung, Schiller, Hebbel, and Grillparzer each nine plays that are still produced.

according to Freud, the tie you pick, the ring you wear, the shirt you buy, all say something about you. Nothing is random, everything you do has intent.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

It does not matter how much we donate it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there?

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.