Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn’t a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

What’s the use in prolonging life if you don’t do anything with it?

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that’s where the point lies.

And yet, protest it if we will,Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch upon those starry skeinsAnd drives us out of doors at nightTo gaze at anagrams of light.

La sanción del crítico no es el sentido de la obra, sino el sentido de lo que dice sobre ella.

we all do think of doing something in life;be it significant or not, do something positive.If you pursue great footsteps, you leave great footprints

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be...

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.

In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

You matter.You are important.There is a reason for your existence.You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn’t cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignorance. And the truth...

Life supports what supports more of life

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn’t, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn’t. Put it in perspective.

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man’s confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused...

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye...

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during...

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what i’m going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want...

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival...

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really...

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

Your personal health is your greatest possession; the most significant foundation of any future you will have.

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then...

I didn’t want to be ordinary,” I mumbled.My mother looked up. “What ordinary, Charley?””You know. Someone you forget.”From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She...

All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you.

And you better believe that I’ll be protecting what’s mine.

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures,...

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

Don’t be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every...

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.

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.

I was just existing, but he made me want to live.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

The tallest mountain in Tibet is just part of the scenery.

A place without meaning is no place to be.

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep...

It’s harder to pick and choose when you’re dead. It’s like a photograph, you know. It doesn’t matter as much.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

What do you want to trust me with tonight?”A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. “Anything,” I whispered back.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest’s eyes for signs of boredom or...

To gain significance, you must first realise that you are insignificant.