Quotes about Meaning

Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.

Augustine wrote, "That first way [to truth] is humility; the second way is humility, and the third way is humility." If humility does not precede our wisdom and help, our efforts are meaningless. Paul, it seems, would agree. Life in Christ starts with humility.

Whatever our monument might be, we want it to be public, even if the public is one friend.

Sin can certainly be a cause of depression, but you must be careful about connecting the dots between the two. If you are being honest, you will always find sin in your life. Everyone does. That doesn't mean that sin caused your depression.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.