Quotes About Significance

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn't matter what he does.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

A life is not a waste of time

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.