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"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
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"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."
"The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else."
"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
"Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself."
"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."
"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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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
"The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time."
"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal."
"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival."
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