Quotes About Significance

M]an never, or at least not normally and primarily, sees in the partners whom he encounters and in the causes to which he commits himself merely a means to an end; for then he actually would have destroyed any authentic relationship to them. Then, they would have become mere tools, being of use for him, but, by the same token, would have ceased to have any value, that is to say, value in itself.

Tình yêu không ch? g?n li?n vá»›i sá»± hi?n h?u c?a th? xác. Tình yêu tìm th?y ý nghÄ©a sâu s?c nh?t trong tâm trí, trong chính ná»™i tâm c?a con ng??i. Cho dù ng??i ?y có thá»±c sá»± t?n t?i, có còn s?ng hay không cÅ©ng không quan tr?ng.

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Si el hombre en medio de todo este torbellino de estímulos quiere sobrevivir y resistir a los medios de comunicación de masas, debe saber qué es o no lo importante, qué es o no lo fundamental; en una palabra, qué es lo que tiene sentido y qué es lo que no lo tiene.

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.

Not only was Prefect Mutz waiting for them, but his boss, Director General Jacques Gisquet, and his boss's boss, Minister of the Interior Pierre Blot, were waiting for them. Neville saw this as a sign that they were taking her accusations seriously. Simon saw the potential for something very different, but before he could stop his boss, she started in.

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. all my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are so small.' 'What d;you mean by splendid?' Hewet asked. 'People are-nothing more.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour and have meaning only under the eyes of love

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

To speak or to be silent was equally an effort, for when they were silent they were keenly conscious of each other's presence, and yet words were either too trivial or too large.

Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out … the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning …

but it was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, that discomposed her; for then people said he depended on her, when they must know that of the two he was infinitely the more important, and what she gave the world, in comparison with what he gave, negligible.

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

He was attaching meanings to words of a symbolical kind. A serious symptom, to be noted on the card.

It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come closer, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores.

Oare de ce tr?im? De ce ne d?m atîta silin?? ca rasa uman? s? mearg? înainte? E un lucru atît de dezirabil? Sîntem atît de atr?g?tori ca specie?

Até os homens e as mulheres parecem ter encolhido, tornaram-se numerosos e diminutos ao invés de únicos e substanciais.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.