Meaning Quotes
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The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of plot, character, and language in absurdist drama. Order is a falsehood that we, God, those who came before us, have imposed on a random universe. However, the absurdist is confronted with a curious paradox: though he believes the Universe to be meaningless, he cannot abandon the search for meaning--or he will die.
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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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Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.
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A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
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Though in application it works splendidly, we do not even understand the physical meaning of quantum mechanics, much less how it might be united with general relativity.
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Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
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The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.
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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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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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Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.
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True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
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I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
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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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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
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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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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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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.
