The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
Umberto EcoTag: meaning utility order method wittgenstein
Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.
Tag: poetry living trust meaning tearstain
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?
Octavio PazTag: meaning
If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?
Douglas AdamsTag: meaning
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.
Werner HeisenbergTag: science understanding meaning unknown understand learn known proceed
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Paulo CoelhoTag: life death meaning companion
Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.
Tag: truth purpose meaning searching
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.
Rebecca SolnitTag: stories stars meaning 165
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire--
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Tag: life inspirational meaning
On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.
Tag: life existence philosophy service thought meaning culture worth dehumanization
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