Quotes About Significance

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

And there are even more unusual cases in poetry, where the observation that parentheses include content of secondary importance needs to be turned on its head. In a poem, what is within the parentheses is always significant -- often more so than in the surrounding text.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

It follows that humans, people and knowledge are not only objectively significant: they are by far the most significant phenomena in nature – the only ones whose behaviour cannot be understood without understanding everything of fundamental importance.

Some people become depressed at the scale of the universe, because it makes them feel insignificant. Other people are relieved to feel insignificant, which is even worse. But, in any case, those are mistakes. Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

People are significant in the cosmic scheme of things; and The Earth's biosphere is incapable of supporting human life.

This is the cosmic significance of explanatory knowledge – and hence of people, whom I shall henceforward define as entities that can create explanatory knowledge.

the Principle of Mediocrity opposes the pre-Enlightenment arrogance of believing ourselves significant in the world; the Spaceship Earth metaphor opposes the Enlightenment arrogance of aspiring to control the world.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

t takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. After all, millions have done so throughout the West. They are not in any peril. To live by the truths of historic Protestantism, however, is an entirely different matter. That takes courage in today's context.

Pourquoi sommes-nous autant marqués par un détail, un geste, qui font de ces instants minimes le coeur d'une époque?

Cilv?ka acs sp?j p?rv?rst mirkli m?ž?b? - viens acumirklis pasaka vair?k nek? gara saruna.

La auténtica medida de la vida es el recuerdo.

L`essentiel, c`est que ces mots aient été écrits. Le reste n`a pas d`importance. Nous ne devons pas laisser de preuves aux chiens. Il faut ranger nos livres et nous souvenirs en nous.

Je pense à Iris qui fut importante tout de même, à Emilie aussi, à Céline bien sûr, et puis d'autres prénoms dans d'autres pénombres, mais c'est Alice, toujours Alice qui est là, immuable, avec encore des rires au-dessus de nos têtes, comme si le premier amour était une condamnation à perpétuité.

Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis is probably about to set in.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

A human being unable to have a meaningful impact on the world ceases to exist.

The reader might be asking: But what does all this have to do with the origins of money? The answer is, surprisingly: everything.

I saw for real that he wasn't worth anything without her, and that all his power in life came from her being with him. He turned into half a human in that one instant.

Con le lacrime agli occhi, quel giorno mi hai chiesto che orologio avessi e io ho riso, dicendo che non era un particolare importante. Al che, immediatamente, hai risposto: "Tutto è importante, come fai a non capire che tutto quello che racconti è importante e prezioso per me? Tutti i tuoi particolari.

the little things were not little things, because it was the accumulation of little things that made big things happen.