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The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have… — Carl Jung
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -… — Steven Strogatz
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics… — Albert Schweitzer
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. — Elwyn Brooks White
Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to… — Karl Barth
Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your… — Robert Moss
Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos. — Unknown Author
What is government if word's have no meaning. — Unknown Author
The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the… — Miss Read
If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that… — Adriana Trigiani
Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to… — Jonas Salk
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves:… — Jonathan Coe
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be… — Bill Bowerman
God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God… — Peter Kreeft
Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers… — Tim Brown
No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that… — David Klinghoffer
It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we… — Stuart Kauffman
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism… — Os Guinness
Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how… — Manti Te'o
The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth… — Alberto Villoldo
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what… — Aaron Siskind
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. .… — Julian Baggini
We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can… — Kij Johnson
Meaning is not in things but in between them. — Norman O. Brown

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