"To grasp the meaning of the world..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
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“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
“No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.”
More on Language
“Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!”
“I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.”
“Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!”
More on Meaning
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
“My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.”
“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance”