Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?
William K. WimsattTags: literature meaning interpretation critics
Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.
Richie NortonTags: life happiness inspiration freedom inspirational-quotes authenticity living meaning fun influence regret start inspirational-quote good-living
Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life.
Richie NortonTags: life success experience passion energy purpose joy authenticity living meaning excitement eating sleeping working projects living-life living-in-the-moment authentic surfing-the-internet watchint-tv
One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests solely in the gullibility of its recipient...
Dan Garfat-PrattTags: philosophy meaning currency counterfeiting
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that—in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.
Steven WeinbergTags: science art purpose universe understanding meaning value cosmos role
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.
Tags: life consciousness truth reality acceptance buddhism purpose meaning-of-life zen meaning self-awareness self-knowledge awareness perfection purpose-of-life awakening know-thyself
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.
Erich FrommFor remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: philosophy meaning vagueness family-resemblance
The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
- Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921
Tags: reductionism mind self skeptic weakness meaning mysticism clarity confusion theosophy dualism
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LucretiusTags: poetry poem meaning superstition fables myths legends
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