Meaning Quotes

God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it ba...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by ...

It's basically a joke." "I think it's cool," Julian says. "It's all about control, right?" He consid...

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t ...

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no me...

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to."Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a ce...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meanin...

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situat...

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time e...

I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could ...

What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought t...

Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality...

Sometimes life is intensely interesting and meaningful, and this meaning seems to be an objective fa...

You've a perfect right to call me as impractical as a dormouse, and to feel I'm out of touch with li...

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden ...

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not ...

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and colo...

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over...

To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have...

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the ...

Who says we don’t want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with u...

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I...

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there ar...

We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufa...

As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisph...

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think....

Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is there...

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people r...

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands noth...

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so th...

I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of ...

Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, lik...

You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming toget...

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us,...

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, woul...

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what th...

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebo...

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in t...

[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a st...

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessne...

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay th...

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little...

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at i...

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ...

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which i...

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest p...

It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in lov...

I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words o...

When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, ...

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is ...

The meaning of life is that it ends

He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he b...

I love brief habits and consider them an inestimable means for getting to know many things…My nature...

Human nature has nevertheless been changed by the ever new appearance of these teachers of the purpo...

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its sp...

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly ...

Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and yo...

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with...

If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then d...

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized pe...

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely object...

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and ...

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, b...

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning an...

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden me...