Meaning Quotes
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You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study.
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Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.
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Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
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I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know that until they meet me and we talk long enough for them to see it.
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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
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Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
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...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
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Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
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I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. History, therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of philosophy.
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
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Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word.
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Some important aspects of important aspects of economic organization take on a new meaning when they are considered from the viewpoint of the search of information.
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Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.
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I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
