#significance

A place without meaning is no place to be. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#journey-of-life #location #meaning #path #place

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. ↗

— Herbert Read

#deeper #existence #experience #human #human existence

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ↗

— Aristotle

#aim #appearance #inward #outward #outward appearance

I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there. ↗

— Michael Cooper

#college #coming #help #here #i

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #death-and-dying #etiquette #perspective #self-censorship

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. ↗

— Rick Warren

#hope #life #purpose #significance #life

struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature. ↗

— Garth Stein

#nature-s-grandeur #time #nature

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#insignificance #sports

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day. ↗

— John R. Allen

#beyond #cells #day #doing #eliminate

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism