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«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
almost, draw, extinguish, extinguishes, extinguishing, inadvisable, meaning, perfect, poetry, understanding, usually
«Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
aim, existence, human existence, meaning, purpose
«If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.»
«Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
discovered, look to, meaning, molded, molding, molds, Teach, The Meaning of Life
«It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
become, contribute, contributed, contributing, gives, lives, meaning, mean life
«I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
alive, looking for, meaning, much as, The Meaning of Life
«It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
As If, Beethoven, describe, described, meaning, No Wave, possible, pressure, pressured, scientifically, sense, symphonies, symphony, The Variations, Too Much Pressure, variation, variations, wave, would-be
«If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Universe
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After Dark, As If, come to light, creatures, dark, dark a, eyes, found, founds, just, just as, know, light, light up, meaning, Our universe, out, should, therefore, The Creatures, the universe, the whole way, universe, universes, Very light, Was, were, whole, wholes, would-be, would
«If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| Keywords:
asked, coffee, coffee cup, cup, double, doubles, double over, doubling, meaning, search, The Double
«It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.»
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