Meaning Quotes

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.