#2,963

That the abandonment of the “what for” in the sciences has been productive is indisputable, but it is an admission of defeat.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,892

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demonstrate that meaning does not exist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,841

“Meaning,” “significance,” “importance,” are terms which do not merely designate transitive relations.
There are things with meaning, significance, importance, in themselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,623

The existence of a work of art demonstrates that the world has meaning.
Even when it does not say what that meaning is.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 424

#2,525

Man pays for the powers he acquires over the world by giving up the meaning of things.
To construct the theory of wind one must renounce the mystery of a whirlwind of dry leaves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,295

When we invent a universal meaning for the world, we deprive of meaning even those fragments that do have meaning.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 372

#2,269

Never to think of the parts except by starting with the whole is a horrible guide for action, but the only one that saves us from living in a world without meaning.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 368

#1,914

Radical sin relegates the sinner to a silent, gray universe, drifting on the surface of the water, a lifeless shipwreck, toward inexorable insignificance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,712

Because he presumed that he was capable of giving fullness to the world, modern man sees it become emptier each day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#811

Whoever merely resigns himself to his lot feels frustrated by a destiny without meaning.
Whoever humbly accepts it knows that he just does not understand the significance of the divine decision concerning him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 149

#473

Sensuality is the permanent possibility of rescuing the world from the captivity of its insignificance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 93

#307

A work of art has, properly speaking, not meaning but power.
Its presumed meaning is the historical form of its power on the transitory spectator.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 67