Quotes About Significance

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Elk ding is een woord

As coisas principais assaltavam-na em quaisquer momentos, também nos vazios, enchendo-os de significados.

I always give names to things

Yo, obra anónima sólo justificable mientras dura mi vida. ¿Y después? Después todo lo que he vivido será de una pobreza superflua.

Look, all I meant is...words are words. They don't matter as much as you think the do. What's important are the emotions behind them" -Josh

A meaningful life is filled with contributions.

modo: "Lo cierto es que las catedrales no significan nada especial para mí. Nada. Catedrales. Es algo que se ve en la televisión a última hora

context is not meaning.

The sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter: Or; as there are billions of lives, my sadness is alive alongside the recognition that billions of lives never mattered.

The sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter: Or; as there are billions of live, my sadness is alive alongside the recognition that billions of lives never mattered.

contain. "You must change your life." And if we hardly know ourselves, "what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people?" Zuckerman poses the question in American

Le mot 'chat' signifie 'la chose blanche qui ronronne' (lors du cours sur la Métaphysique des Espèces Naturelles, Collège de France 2013-2014)

so it was hard to believe that establishing once and for all that there was no God could ever be done definitively. But if it were possible…would Leonard even mind at this point? Would he truly care if he and Pearl—if Man—meant nothing in the scheme of the universe?

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Believing with Max Weber that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

99 cents is not the value of anything. It is the worth that makes the value of anything.

The physical worth of anything is dependent on the value that you put into it.

Applaud yourself when you do good each day. You don't get rewarded for every single penny that you share for others, but these pennies when collected can weigh more than the actual weight of 2.5 billion people.