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Willard Van Orman Quine

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

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

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"The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?"

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"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."

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"You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time."

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"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"

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"Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing."

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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."

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"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."

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

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