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«When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective»
«Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.»
«Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Communication,
God,
Meaning
| Keywords:
adjoin, adjoining, communicate, communication, knocking, knockings, link, prisoners, separates, separation, The Wall, wall
«Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.»
«The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.»
«Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it [is] he who is asked.»
«The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.»
«Whoever does not know how to lay his will into things at least lays some meaning into them - that means he has the faith that they already obey some will»
«The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Life,
Meaning
| Keywords:
acknowledgment
«The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Meaning,
Understanding
| Keywords:
work of art
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