Quotes about means
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist

Source: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)

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“First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you're a professional.”

David Belle (1973) French actor

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“Love life more than the meaning of it.”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (Bratři Karamazovi)

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“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
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“There is not any kind of meaning in the lyrics, in fact it was an attempt at completely deconstructing reality.”

Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990) Soviet rock musician (1962-1990)

In an 1987 interview, "Aluminum Cucumbers" http://russiantumble.com/tag/viktortsoi/ (7 November 2012)

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“I'm an atheist: I don't know what it means to believe in God.”

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) Italian neurologist

Source: Interview with Piergiorgio Odifreddi in Incontri con menti straordinarie (TEA, Milano, 2007), ISBN 978-88-502-1523-2.

“What does it mean to be human without human values?”

#Human Values

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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman

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“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
Context: For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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“Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”

Variant: Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Source: Lady Sings the Blues

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Lewis Carroll photo

“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power

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“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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“Never follow anyone else's path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Variant: Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.

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“Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.”

T. Harv Eker (1954) American writer

Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

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Ayn Rand photo
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Leonard Bernstein photo
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Chris Rock photo

“You can only offend me if you mean something to me.”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
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“Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Context: So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

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“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.”

Pt. IV, Expression; § 67: "Conclusion.", p. 267
The Sense of Beauty (1896)

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Bruce Lee photo

“All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.”

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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Bruce Lee photo

“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 3
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.”

Pt II, p. 162
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Context: One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

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Virginia Woolf photo
Eleanor Roosevelt photo
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“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”

Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher

A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

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“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

IQ84 (2009-2010)
Source: 1Q84

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“Peace means nothing without freedom.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

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“Religion means to know God and to love Him.”

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) Indian guru

Source: The Science of Self-Realization

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“To philosophize means to make vivid.”

Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
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