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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."
216
"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
182
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
95
"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."
91
"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."
91
"Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning."
86
"We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness."
85
"I don't want to die while I still have beautiful reasons to die for."
75
"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
72
"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement."
72
"Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning."
72
"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."
71
"Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter."
65
"The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification."
65
"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
64
"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."
64
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
64
"No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything."
60
"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."
60
"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."
57
"Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses."
57
"Words are not the answer. Only the feelings you as an individual get from them are."
56
"The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful."
55
"You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know."
53
"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."
52
"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
51
"Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them."
50
"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."
49
"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."
49
"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."
48
"Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life."
44
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