Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
It’s not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It’s nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
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