Quotes About Significance

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

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.

Analogical thinking makes what is alien intelligible or what is insignificant significant, by bringing it within the sphere of the already known-as stones to teeth.

Zavolio sam ga, znam po tome što mi je postao potreban, što nisam zamjerio ni?emu ma šta da je rekao i u?inio, i što mi je sve njegovo postalo važno. Ljubav je valjda jedina stvar na svijetu koju ne treba objašnjavati ni tražiti joj razlog.

Strašno je proživeti vek kao anoniman i potpuno neopažen ?ovek; nikakva odjeka od tebe nema, jednak si kamenu ili ba?enoj grani kraj puta. Niko te zapamtiti ne?e. Jer ve? za tvoga života pitaju: ko je taj Ivan Mari?? Šta je u?inio?

Having a name online means no more than it being written on a paper sheet.

I was touched that he has considered the fact that there would be two of us, and prepared for it - concrete evidence that I had entered his consciousness at a time when I was not standing in front of him. A thrilling discovery - like seeing a chimp make tools.

Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie's boyfriend. Julie's fiance. Julie's provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him.

Love transcended breath, eczema, fear of sex, and an imbalance in physical appearance. If love was real, then these bodily, human details could seem insignificant.

A high school play was a time of high emotion and meaning; if you were in a play, you felt as if the play mattered. The success or failure of any production seemed like a real reflection on you personally.

The echo of my thought startled me. The weight of the future it contained frightened me more than anything else

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

there are . . . in every age a few in whose lot the meaning of that age is concentrated"? "I feel that I am one of those persons in my age and sex," she told him. "I feel chosen among women." Margaret would preserve her right to fill an apostolic station, if called.

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

If the ultimate purpose of your life is your children, what's the purpose of your children's lives? To have your grandchildren? Isn't anyone's life ultimately meaningful in itself? If not, what's the point of propagating it ad infinitum?

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

How long we live is much more important than how well we live!

Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!