If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals
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GIAMBATTISTA VICO If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.
Surely, whi...
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IAN MACLAREN AKA REV. JOHN WATSON So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dog...
CATHARINE MACKINNON Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the r...
RICHARD MITCHELL There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particul...
SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ine...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be ...
ERIK ERIKSON Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
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ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD If there would have been subjective meaning of LIFE, it would be Happiness..
PANKAJ MATHUR Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false p...
CORITA KENT If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
IDI AMIN If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
IDI AMIN DADA If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
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WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the sc...
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JOSEPH ADDISON There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be re...
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BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
ALBERT CAMUS If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
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ALAN W. WATTS Not everyone has the time to be normal.
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E.A. BUCCHIANERI It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘...
HENRY CLOUD When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
ED HOWE When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
E. W. HOWE Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' ma...
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C.S. LEWIS If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
C. S. LEWIS You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
RICHARD LINGARD If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice
LEARNED HAND If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
LEARNED HAND if we knew the meaning of life it would cease to have meaning
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lu...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other stan...
B. R. AMBEDKAR If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a caus...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meanin...
ROLAND BARTHES Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
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BENJAMIN JOWETT Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, t...
PIETRO CITATI DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more object...
AMBROSE BIERCE Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of '...
CHARLES IVES If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace
THOMAS PAINE If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, p...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, p...
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FIDEL CASTRO Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successf...
HOMARO CANTU We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.
A.A. MILNE There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is enca...
DOROTHY PARKER In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you mus...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you mus...
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN If there are all these different kinds of bacteria, there must be all kinds of chemicals that they'r...
JO HANDELSMAN All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.&...
SOPHOCLES I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they...
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KURT VONNEGUT JR. If you sense there must be more, there is more.
ALAN COHEN If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
DOROTHY MILLER RICHARDSON Plato, to incline to Christianity.
BLAISE PASCAL To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
It is hard work t...
CHAIM POTOK I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich ...
AIME CESAIRE I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning ...
JAY WOODMAN Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-Plato
PLATO It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neat...
WALTER KAUFMANN My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence
RICHARD BURDON HALDANE I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot b...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of ...
ARISTOTLE There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their w...
GOLDWIN SMITH The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
WALT WHITMAN He must accept responsibility for his hand in what our citizens clearly consider to be government co...
BROCK WINSLOW You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every ...
EMILY CARR To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to...
ALEISTER CROWLEY To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
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