Meaning Quotes
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I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.
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A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
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I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
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If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
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For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.
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There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
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I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.
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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
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I don’t want [my paintings’ subject matter] to be seen as a just a button. So they have to be read as not a button or a flower but something abstracted from which you can derive meaning.
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Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
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The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
