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"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
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"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."
"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival."
"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal."
"The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time."
"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
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