Meaning Quotes
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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
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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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I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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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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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
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I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.
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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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My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
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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 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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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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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
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Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning.
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You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.
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In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.
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Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
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Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
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To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
