"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

Meaning, Word

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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Seeking answers to the questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you can finally live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is always the answer."

Kate McGahan, American Author

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"The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The true meaning of your life doesn't lie in your experiences, but in your frequent positive interpretations of your past and present."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn't call them to be your audience, someone else did."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Meaning, Suffering

"Our reaction does not cancel the meaning of their existence because every creation serves a definite purpose."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Meaning, Existence, Purpose, Creation

"Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algAon dAa. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Meaning, Chance, Existence, Philosophy

"I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter."

John Green, American Author

Meaning, Matter, Life, Identity

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"Seeking answers to the questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you can finally live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is always the answer."

"The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it."

"The true meaning of your life doesn't lie in your experiences, but in your frequent positive interpretations of your past and present."

"The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn't call them to be your audience, someone else did."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"Our reaction does not cancel the meaning of their existence because every creation serves a definite purpose."

"Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algAon dAa. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte."

"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."

"I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter."

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"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

"To be is to be the value of a variable."

"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."