Meaning Quotes
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
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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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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.
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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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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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Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.
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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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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
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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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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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Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
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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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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 has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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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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Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.
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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.
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You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.
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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.
