Meaning Quotes
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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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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
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Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
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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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My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
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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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The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
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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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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
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Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.
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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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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
