That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…
Jess C. ScottTags: reality society technology reflection meaning materialism cyberpunk body-image plastic-surgery
What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.
François JacobIf, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert CamusThe meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Niels BohrI have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy CarterTags: belief meaning make-a-difference
The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
Jacques MonodTags: choice belief universe chance meaning alone destiny covenant
Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting of the world is made superfluous, and we lose friction in relation to the world.We Romantics need a meaning that we ourselves realize – and the person who is preoccupied with self-realization inevitably has a meaning problem. This is no one collective meaning in life any more, a meaning that it is up to the individual to participate in. Nor is it that easy to find an own meaning in life, either. The meaning that most people embrace is self-realization as such, but it is not obvious what type of self is to be realized, nor what
should possibly result from it. The person who is certain as regards himself will not ask the question as to who he is. Only a problematic self feels the need for realization.
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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
Jess C. ScottTags: life truth friendship friends insightful love family humanity society meaning-of-life human-nature reflection reflective social-commentary meaning life-lessons insight humans young-adult humankind cyberpunk elves social-science young-adult-literature human-behavior elven social-issues urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels inside-ourselves urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series nq-mobile-omar-khan omar-khan-nq-mobile
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
Kahlil GibranTags: compassion meaning meaninglessness
For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp,.. 'that is precisely the point. That's their value - their ability to adapt -' 'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.
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