#meaning

For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#life #life-application #meaning #natural-world #purpose

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. ↗

— John Corigliano

#become #completely #composer #great #i

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#faith #history #meaning #means #nevertheless

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#biologists #darwinian #darwinian theory #evolutionary #explains

Live the moment, Seize the day, Carpe diem ↗

— Lucia Powers

#life-meaning #life

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#hard #keep #life #like #meaning

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. ↗

— George H. Mead

#appreciation #art #attitude #become #enjoyed

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

#discovering #full #human #human life #knows

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #bridges #contemporary-poetry #dreams #meaning