Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.
Tito Rajarshi MukhopadhyayTags: education meaning relationship autism meaningful
Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky's eyeglasses; Gandhi's native-spun cloth, Cortes' pieces of solid gold (extorted from their original owner, Montezuma); a little heap of orange peels left on the table by the late Robespierre; John Brown's lengthily underlined letters; Lenin's bottles of invisible ink; one of Di Giovanni's suitcases, with an iron cylinder of gelignite and two glass tubes of acid inside; the Constitution of the Ku Klux Klan; a bruised ear (Napoleon pinched it with loving condescension)... And dead bodies, of course. (They sing about John Brown's body.) Memoirs, manifestoes, civil codes, trial proceedings, photographs, statues, weapons now aestheticized by that selfsame history - the sword of Frederick the Great, and God knows what else. Then dust blows out of fresh graves, and the orange peels go grey, sink, wither, rot away. Sooner or later, every murder becomes quaint. Charlemagne hanged four and a half thousand "rebels" in a single day, but he has achieved a storybook benevolence. And that's only natural: historiography begins after the orange has been sucked,; the peeler believes in the "great and beautiful things," or wants to believe; easy for us to believe likewise, since dust reduced truth and counterfeit to the same greyness - caveat emptor. But ends remain fresh, and means remain inexplicable. Rising up and rising down! And whom shall I save, and who is my enemy, and who is my neighbor?
William T. VollmannTags: history war memory meaning momentos
I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.
Jonathan CulverTags: intelligence learning communication meaning ideas humans human-beings
NOTHING MAKES SENSE. Do not look for any sense in things. It is not there. It is you who ascribe it to what you live or get to know. A defeat or a victory is neither a message from the gods nor a trick of fate. Neither means anything — and, if they seem to, it is but an interpretation you yourself make of them —, inasmuch as things in themselves are only indifference and silence. So, do not waste your precious time in looking for signs everywhere around you. Try and interpret happenings, those which bleed and those which make you smile, as maturing experiences. Oh, yes, what is most important: live!
Camilo Gomes Jr.Tags: life meaning experiences
Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.
Camilo Gomes Jr.Tags: life reading religion meaning
The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.
Sandra L. SchneiderTags: reality acceptance meaning denial leniency
Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.
Dejan StojanovicTags: words poetry philosophy literature poets meaning quotes thoughts poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom words poetry rich literature meaning quotes thoughts cheap poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic effects
Into the day as by dream I swim
To the music of nourished meaning.
Tags: wisdom day poetry dreams literature dream meaning quotes thoughts swimming nourish poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by swim literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic circling
examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.
Gregory B. SadlerTags: history philosophy meaning definition history-of-philosophy
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