Significance Quotes

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.