“Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.”
“You can t build the road without walking it.”
“All the people of a land must be the leaders of freedom and libertarianism.”
“Be free-spirited. We can have our own point of view. We can even agree with each other s opposing views!”
“Democracy is meaningless without free media.”
“Only democracy will enhance the social knowledge of the people.”
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”
“We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.”
“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person s life its true meaning.”
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.”
“Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn t read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.”
“There s no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.”
“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew”
“…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.”
“Those who call freedom sexual immorality, are sick.”
“Kindness and friendship will last in the land of libertarians.”