Quotes About Significance

Establishing the two Eids as official holidays will carry important practical and symbolic significance.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

It all worked out quite peaceably, because the fells and the lakes were of so much greater interest and significance than any human activity.

What if you started acting like what you do for kids is more important than anything else you do.

The greatest things often lie concealed in the most insignificant, as in a mustard seed, or in the tiny trickle which is the beginning of a mighty river.

It is the nature of a business community that it deals with the covert forms of power in economic life and to be insensible to the significance and the complexity of more overt forms of power, even as it is insensible to the motive of the lust for power as an element in human nature.

L'essentiel est sans cesse menacé par l'insignifiant.

Let us add that nature is given its full significance only if it is looked at as offering us a means of rising up to the knowledge of divine truths, which is precisely the essential function which we have recognized in symbolism.

for there are things for which a symbolical mode of expression properly so called is the only one possible, and which will consequently never be understood by those for whom symbolism is a dead letter.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Een doel, hoe nietig ook, verschafte het leven zin en betekenis.

It is most significant i think, that the word discrimination which for ages has been the very name of excellence, is now a bad thing, discrimination which used to be the supreme virtue, has now become the supreme crime, one should not discriminate, ofcourse i personaly think with all the past centuries of western culture that on should always discriminate.

Time is measured in meaning

You not only create your life with your thoughts, but your thoughts add powerfully to the creation of the world. If you thought that you were insignificant and had no power in this world, think again. Your mind is actually shaping the world around you.

The war is over. They just signed the armistice. Eleven o'clock this morning, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

El llamado Principio Antrópico nos dice que nosotros nos hallamos en uno de los improbables universos en los que una mente consciente es posible, mientras que en el resto simplemente no hay nadie que pueda observar. De este modo, el motivo esencial de por qué nuestro universo, el universo en el que habitamos, es aparentemente especial es porque nosotros estamos aquí.

With one eye on the past, some see which they cannot see, whilst others in the future see that which cannot be seen. Why go so far, look closer! What is freedom? The day is here! This is the hour, the moment; and this moment is who we are and that is that. Forever flowing, the eternal hour reveals our insignificance. In a single gasp we live and die, so size the day, for the day is simply who you are.

On Earth, when anthropologists can't find instant meaning in any cultural artifact, they say "This obviously had deep religious significance.")

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.