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Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. — John Green

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. — Stephen Jay Gould

Each life contains as much meaning as all of history. — Catherine Chung

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance. — Siobhan Davis

History is the nothing people write about a nothing. — William Golding

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet? — P.J. Parker

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. — Hermann Hesse

But I see history as a book with many pages
and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. — George H. W. Bush

Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures. — Rousas John Rushdoony

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever — Westminster Shorter Catechism

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive. — David Bedrick

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it. — Elizabeth Kostova

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. — Hermann Hesse

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. — James Mark Baldwin

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time. — Paul Valery

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do. — Jodi Picoult

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. — James Harvey Robinson

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom. — Timothy Radcliffe

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

The word 'algebra' derives from Al-Khawarizmi's book title "al-jabr", meaning "completion"; balancing both sides to find a solution — Firas Alkhateeb

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out. — Jasper Fforde

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. — E.H. Carr

The tears of God are the meaning of history. — Nicholas Wolterstorff

History has no meaning. — Karl R. Popper

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich