Quotes About Significance

Anything that belongs to anyone can be precious. The only thing that will not matter is when everything is undervalued.

Old friends and relatives may not remember you. They may not need anything from you either. But remembering them can be worth more than anything.

One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.

its author's enviable knack for assessing the significance of what everybody else had already seen and his congenital propensity for inflating the results into a speculative rigmarole that nobody else would ever think or could even follow.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

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There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Als das Grundgesetz entstandt, zitterte förmlich der Boden, auf dem es geschrieben wurde.

All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.

the whole of culture — may be of great value in itself, but whenever it is thrown into the balance against the kingdom of heaven, it loses all its significance.

Factually and objectively, however, nothing is indifferent, neither in nature, nor in the state, nor in science and art. All things, even the most humble, have their specific place and meaning in the context of the whole. Human beings are indifferent only to what they do not, or do not sufficiently, know; they automatically assess and appreciate what they do know. God, who knows all things, is not indifferent to anything.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event—the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.

Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.

We humans make all that present which is never there, and which is always hurrying past us like the tumble of a stream, an all-important thing.

Nem általánosan elfogadott nézet, nem különösebben népszer? gondolat, hogy az embereket sokféle dolog választja el egymástól, és Å'szintén szólva, a halál a legkevésbé fontosak egyike.

Try to work on the scale of eternity. Do you see? Otherwise you will be fettered by trivia. The daily frustrations will cripple you.

Why is it always little legs that have to save big legs? Just run upstairs and fetch me ....... It flattered you, when you were young. You thought you were important, indeed essential. He used to hurtle around Putney, on errands for Walter. More fool him.

There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause. . .

MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?