Quotes About Significance

He said my name. He knows what my name is. He spoke it out loud and used it in a sentence.

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.

But I judge by the eyes—you can't mistake them either near or far! Oh, eyes are a significant thing! Like a barometer. You can see everything—who has a vast desert in his heart, who can jab you in the ribs with the toe of his boot for no reason at all, and who is afraid of everything.

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the "Es muss sein!" to our own great love.

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?

La insignificancia, amigo mío, es la esencia de la existencia.

Tutti noi consideriamo impensabile che l'amore della nostra vita possa essere qualcosa di leggero, qualcosa che non ha peso; riteniamo che il nostro amore sia qualcosa che doveva necessariamente essere; che senza di esso la nostra vita non sarebbe stata la nostra vita. Ci sembra che Beethoven, in persona, torvo e scapigliato, suoni al nostro grande amore il suo Es muss sein!

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. and nowadays this border has become unrecognizable.

Todos consideramos impensable que el amor de nuestra vida pueda ser algo leve, sin peso; creemos que nuestro amor es algo que tenía que ser; que sin él nuestra vida no sería nuestra vida. Nos parece que el propio huraño Beethoven, con su terrible melena, toca para nuestro gran amor su «es muss sein!».

But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? Chance and chance alone has a message for us. everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Numai întâmplarea ne poate ap?rea ca un mesaj. Tot ce se petrece ca o necesitate, tot ce e de aÈ™teptat È™i se repet? zi de zi nu-i decât un lucru mut. Numai întâmplarea ne spune ceva. Iar noi ne str?duim s? citim în ea, aÈ™a cum citesc È›ig?ncile în figurile desenate de zaÈ›ul cafelei pe fundul ceÈ™tii.

necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

una decisión de peso, va unida a la voz del destino; el peso, la necesidad y el valor son tres conceptos internamente unidos: sólo aquello que es necesario, tiene peso; solo aquello que tiene peso, vale.

But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.

Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all.

Porque el joven era consciente a veces de que el mundo en que vive es un laberinto de valores cuya importancia intuye apenas vagamente y que, por lo tanto, sólo pueden dejar de ser valores aparentes y convertirse en valores reales cuando hayan sido confirmados

No tiene cada época sus símbolos?, ¡Bien, pero lo interesante es quién ha sido elegido para convertirse en símbolo!

Stalin's son laid down his life for shit. But a death for shit is not a senseless death.

Schwere, Notwendigkeit und Wert sind drei eng zusammenhängende Begriffe: nur das Notwendige ist schwer, nur was wiegt, hat Wert.

Wir alle halten es für undenkbar, dass die Liebe unseres Lebens etwas Leichtes, etwas Gewichtloses sein könnte; wir stellen uns vor, dass unsere Liebe ist, was sie sein muss; dass ohne sie unser Leben nicht unser Leben wäre.

El peso, la necesidad y el valor son tres conceptos internamente unidos: solo aquello que es necesario, tiene peso; solo aquello que tiene peso, vale

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same