Quotes About Significance

No son las palabras, ¡es lo que implica!

The growth of civilization was complete. Everyone knew it. When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was more important than any other. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.

2042 is the year we conquered death, and also the year we stopped counting. Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of the immortality, passing time ceased to matter.

It had come out of nowhere—and he knew that nowhere often spat forth some very important things.

Volume of curious facts and fictions of people who lived each day of their lives with the ravages of age and relentless approach of death. The brittle pages were filled with melodramatic and passionate short-sightedness that seemed laughable now. People who believed that their slightest actions mattered and that they could find a sense of completion before death inevitably took them, along with everyone they ever knew and loved.

I was never going to amount to much anyway, but now, statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was more important than any other.

When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was important than any other. In fact in the ground scheme of things, everyone was equally useless

nothing matters and we know nothing matters and that matters…

The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance.

The great variability of all the external differences between the races of man, likewise indicates that they cannot be of much importance; for if important, they would long ago have been either fixed and preserved, or eliminated.

This is really life, this is doing something in the world, and in the presence of it you can see why the creators of it regard your world, which seemed to you so important, the world whose business is the evolution and expression of thought and emotion, as insignificant.

When time is remote enough nobody amounts to much.

An imaginary planet has a role like a clown in a Shakespeare play. Every so often an audience needs a breather, a fresh view. Other planets provide that. But every time I write about another planet it is deliberately so unrealistic that people can't really believe it. In a way it makes our own planet more important, more real."66

every act, object and statement that man perceives is meaningful (even "nothing") and […] the frontiers of meaning are always, momentarily, in state of collapse and paradox.

When I walk the fields I am oppressed now and then with an innate feeling that everything I see has a meaning, if I could but understand it.

I may not touch a million lives, but I may touch the one that does.

When we worship something, we are affirming its value to us. We do that with our actions as well as with our hearts. A

This would be an extinction event for humanity. We can't let it happen. It is also a who-poisoned-my-beehives event for the Black Pharaoh, which is why He's trying to prevent it. (We bring Him honey: He keeps us around.)

my middle names aren't Oliver and Francis.

Our first priority is the same as it ever was," he said: "survival. Not all of us, or any of us in particular, or forever, but survival is the principal goal. It's the function of all life forms to persist for as long as possible. If nobody and nothing survives, nothing matters. And I don't know about you, but I'm deeply uncomfortable with that.

Our sample of 25 will still give us meaningful information, as would a sample of 5 or 10—but how meaningful? The t-distribution answers that question.

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.