Meaning Quotes
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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
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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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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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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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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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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
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It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct spiritual experience.
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A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.
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What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.
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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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The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.
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What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
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A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
