“When everything means something, nothing is fun.” — Peter Welch, And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
Tag: meaning
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“One should never mistake pattern … for meaning.” — Iain Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
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“A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
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“If management views the workers not as valuable, unique individuals but as tools to be discarded when no longer needed, then employees will also regard the firm as nothing more than a machine for issuing paychecks, with no other value or meaning.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Good Business
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“The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning and are interpretable only at the level of ‘Fuck You’, so they can then elicit a perfectly predictable torrent of abuse in response.” — Noam Chomsky, On Vaclav Havel Speech, letter to Alexander Cockburn (1990-03-01)
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“The lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
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“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.” — Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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“Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won’t find it and you’ll bugger up your soufflé.” — Tim Minchin, Occasional Address
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“Even if life as a whole is meaningless, perhaps that’s nothing to worry about. Perhaps we can recognise it and just go on as before.” — Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?
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“When a change in perception takes place, the facts do not change. Their meaning does.” — Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Driving Change
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