What Is The Meaning Quotes

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spirituality

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• What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

  Aristotle

  Life, Helping Others, Essence

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

  Freeman Dyson

  Wise, Thinking, Fog

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• The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Purpose

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• What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Religion, Answers, Human Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cities, Community, Soul

  "The Rock". Play by T. S. Eliot, 1934.

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• What is the meaning of Initiation?  It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

  Aleister Crowley

  Self, Perfection, Path

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• What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy

  Samuel Alexander

  Stars, Philosophy, Tree

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• My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Different, Action

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.325

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• What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.

  Steve Redhead

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, What Is The Meaning Of Life

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• If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Mind, Gone

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• All the songs are written from the perspective of a person, being me, who had trouble with some of the big questions in life, like, are we meant to be together with the same person for the rest of our lives? Or, is it frowned upon if a man goes through many women at all times? What is the meaning of love versus sex? It's just a lot of big questions, I guess, that are really difficult to answer. People see it very differently, but people sometimes suppress their lust. And it's not only sex. It could be lusting for anything that's supposedly very bad for you but can be good for you, too.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Song, Men, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Simple, Illumination

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.333, Princeton University Press

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• We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Healing, Meaning Of Life, Asking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “Very Far Away from Anywhere Else”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

  James Frey

  Life, Want, Meaning Of Life

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• What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Circles, Paper, Violence

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “His Last Bow and Others: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

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• I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, Important, Literature

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I was dealing with a lot of spiritual questions like "Who am I?" "What is God" "What is the meaning of life?" All of these questions that I think we can either face head on or choose to ignore, it's up to us.

  John McLaughlin

  Spiritual, Thinking, Meaning Of Life

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• So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Meaning Of Life, Arms

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• For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

  Simon Critchley

  Disappointment, Philosophy, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 2003.

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