Quotes About Significance

Dreams are never concerned with trivia.

The fact that anticathexis has an opposite direction in hysteria and the phobias from what it has in obsessional neurosis—though the distinction is not an absolute one—seems to be significant. It suggests that there is an intimate connection between repression and external anticathexis on the one hand and between regression and internal anticathexis (i.e. alteration of the ego through reaction-formation) on the other.

What do we mean when we ask what the point is? Reflection bakes no bread, but then neither does architecture, music, art, history, or literature.

Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.

Elles [Rosa Luxembourg, Marie Curie] démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'infériorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les a vouées à l'infériorité.

it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion

toda a história das mulheres foi feita pelos homens. (...) As mulheres que realizaram obras comparáveis às dos homens (...) demonstram brilhantemente que não foi a inferioridade feminina que determinou a sua insignificância histórica: foi, antes, a sua insignificância histórica que as votou à inferioridade.

C'est seulement depuis que les femmes commencent à se sentir chez elles sur cette terre qu'on a vu apparaître une Rosa Luxembourg, une Mme. Curie. Elles démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'inferiorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les à vouées à l'inferiorité.

The fact of being a human being is infinitely more important than all the singularities that distinguish human beings;

We can hope to grasp the significance of sexuality only by studying it in its concrete manifestations; and then perhaps the meaning of the word female will stand revealed.

Le nihiliste a raison de penser que le monde no possède aucune justification et que lui-même n'est rien; mais il oublie qu'il lui appartient de justifier le monde et de se faire exister valablement.

Faithfulness is far more significant than fame when Jesus is building His church.

She knew that there was nothing heroic or obviously dramatic in it, no magic of rare hours, nor valiant challenge, but it seemed to her that she was of some significance because she was commonplaceness, the ordinary life of the age, made articulate and protesting.

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sherlock Holmes in A Case of Identity - 1891

To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.

Be honest! Magnus, you and I, we're not destined to be together forever. We're not the main event. I think we're …" I screw up my face, trying to think of a way to put it. "I think we're each other's footnotes.

Tell it anyway. Little words can mean death or life sometimes.

Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all right! -she has her freedom, but she will still belong to me. That the engagement should bind her is silly-I want to possess her only in her freedom

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!