Meaning Quotes
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
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Place a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would we have to do to come to believe it?" For the pragmatist the question is, "What would we do if did believe it?"
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
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That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
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Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
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At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.
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My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.
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If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear.
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
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These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's c**p that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fibre in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy?... Maybe there's some healthy property or some restorative property that I'm not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.
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...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
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The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.
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People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
