Significance Quotes

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life ha...

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what...

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the w...

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of th...

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evi...

And yet, protest it if we will,Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch...

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet ...

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we bec...

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on p...

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater si...

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his en...

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the signific...

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in ...

How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal a...

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the m...

I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?""You know. So...

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