Meaning Quotes
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Saint Augustine -
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Ada Cambridge
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I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
Ethan Canin -
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition.
Victor Hugo -
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells -
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey -
The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living.
Socrates -
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams -
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Friedrich Schiller -
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
Rachel Cusk -
Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse -
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Otto Rank -
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Paracelsus -
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
Malcolm Boyd -
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West -
I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
Randy Harrison
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
Adam Beach -
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian -
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
Yuna -
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
Victoria Jackson