Quotes about Meaning
Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
- Aristotle
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does nothing uselessly.
- Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Aristotle
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
- Carl Jung
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- Victor Hugo
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
- John Updike
Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.
- Jim Rohn
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
- Albert Camus
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
- Jim Rohn
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
- Amy Grant
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
- Ernest Hemingway