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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 Culver

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Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

—John Connolly

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CodeMeaning
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Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

—Muriel Spark

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Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; “my name means the shape I am – and a good handsome shape it is, too. With...

—Lewis Carroll

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When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

—Margaret Atwood

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[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won’t give...

—Joseph Campbell

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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

—Thomas Pynchon

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This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man’s power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world’s population. But...

—William Barrett

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The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously,...

—Viktor E.

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There’s no meaning in a market if traders cannot sell or buy when they want.

—Ryuta Otsuka

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This is what economists call a simultaneous process, meaning that it works both ways.

—Sung Sohn

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We don’t experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds; they are intertwined and holistic.

—Tom Hayes

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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

—Toru Takemitsu

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Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.

—Alberto Caeiro

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And when you die only your thoughts that have reached paper remain. Finally when someone stumbles upon those words, reads about your loves and your losses, you touch them emotionally and for a time they...

—Morris R.

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Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

—A.J. Darkholme

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It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.

—Álvaro de Campos

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Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic ‘feeling’ about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes ‘pick up’ accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station....

—Colin Wilson

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If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

—Criss Jami

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I can’t remember what I said to her, and she can’t remember what she heard. I must have said I love you.

—Jarod Kintz

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La pensée n’est qu’un écliar au milieu d’une longue nuit. Mais c’est cet éclair qui est tout.Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything.

—Henri Poincaré

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At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual’s sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing...

—Daniel J.

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Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

—Elizabeth George

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My only armor is my belief that life has meaning…

—Dean Koontz

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I 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...

—Jimmy Carter

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Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

—Marty Rubin

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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....

—Octavio Paz

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We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves,...

—Michael Polanyi

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Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

—Michael Callahan

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…there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go…

—John Geddes

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There’s not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

—Sarah Kane

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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

—Tariq Ramadan

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Suddenly she bent down and kissed his fingers and went quickly away. But he sat for a long time in the gathering clouds trembling with happiness and trying to penetrate into the meaning of these...

—Thorton Wilder

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Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well...

—Viktor E.

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The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time in the midst of an impenetrable darkness. A small area is...

—Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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Don’t worry about meaning. If a story’s any good, it can’t help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

—William Kittredge

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The meaning of life is not a search—it is a choice. Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things. The world means nothing by itself. You give it all the...

—Robert Holden

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Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing — faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

—Terry Tempest

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I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

—Alberto Caeiro

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Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.

—Amit Kalantri

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È una cosa strana. Quando ti accade di vedere il posto dove saresti salvo, sei sempre lì che lo guardi da fuori. Non ci sei mai dentro. È il tuo posto, ma tu non ci...

—Alessandro Baricco

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In the end, people don’t view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a...

—Atul Gawande

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When I reached the street I didn’t know whether to go right or left. Soon I’d have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.

—Denis Johnson

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… and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself...

—Charlotte Eriksson

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A wise man’s goal shouldn’t be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

—Criss Jami

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At first, the drudgery of mastering your craft is a prison—boring, slow, and with an awareness of how much time you’ll have to put in. But somewhere along your prison sentence, you come to see...

—Jarod Kintz

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The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher....

—D.R. Khashaba

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Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?” Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories...

—Christina Baker

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