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Meaning Quotes
"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy."
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"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
38
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
25
"But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't."
24
"We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness."
17
"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
15
"You are living to the fullest when you live to discover and fulfill your purpose."
15
"The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification."
13
"The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful."
11
"Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning."
9
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
7
"You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know."
7
"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."
6
"Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter."
6
"Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses."
6
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
5
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
5
"Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning."
5
"It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
5
"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."
5
"I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful."
5
"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."
5
"Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them."
4
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
4
"Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning."
4
"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
3
"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
3
"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
3
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
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