Quotes About Meaning

Overall, the research suggests that conspiracy theories appeal to people who seek accuracy or meaning about personally important issues, but lack the cognitive resources or have other problems that prevent them from finding the answers to questions by more rational means

No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.

I was reading the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything

The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

Oh, I say, if we were meant to come back to God, why were we sent out, why were we sent away? I wish for innocence more than anything, but I am conscious only of corruption.

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

Like a funeral, a birthday wasn't yours but for the people who loved you.

In the hieroglyphic script, the power of the words were matched by the power of the symbols themselves. The symbols were regarded as being so powerful, precautions had to be taken to prevent them from taking on a life of their own.

The symbolism of what they had done meant nothing in this world, this life, unless we ourselves empowered it with meaning.

There was a message to be translated, symbolism to be aligned and understood.

I am the lioness. I speak with her voice. I look out through her eyes. I am she. I doze in the hot bars of sunlight that come down through the temple roof. I breathe in the scent of flowers. Priests come to me and ask questions so I will talk. It doesn't matter what I say, because all the words of the goddess have meaning. They sing to me to improve my humour.

Purple is not only the 'royal colour', but is linked to spirituality, and intuition.

The sun needs the contrast of the night for its shine to have meaning.

In some ways, I feel he is only a symbol.

We giggled again, like girls. We were so different, yet the interval of years was meaningless. It was as if we'd seen each other every day since then. Very few friendships have this magic.

By day, Casmeer worried that he was becoming too involved in his work. He realised the boundary between fantasy and reality was growing blurred. Occasionally, but with increasing regularity, he thought about giving up on his creation. And yet, it had given his empty life some meaning. How could he live without it now?

Gods are functional only for their names being used in oaths. They lend a pungency, a focus to sharp remarks.

I have lived with the knowledge of the meaning of my name for a long time.

The events of the last few months have broken down into essential components in my mind: archetype, symbol, myth. I feel that everything is softly falling into focus: soon my eyes will be clear, I shall see the whole picture. Such a pity that, now, it is irrelevent to me.

Perhaps there was just too much information for him to interpret, and the important symbols were lost in a confusing maelstorm of ancient memories. Or perhaps the fault lay within himself.

A central failure of the "mind as a computational system" theory is that computations, per se, are devoid of meaning.

Holy" in Greek always had in it the idea of difference and separation. The Christian is to be distinctly different—set apart by God for His purposes. The church has often mistaken the meaning of this. The separation is not from the world, but a difference expressed in the world.

advanced technology is converting many industries into factories full of robots raises questions about work, leisure, and meaning for life. The proliferation of nuclear weapons creates a morbid fear of the destruction of the human race which undermines the moral and ethical foundations of our society.

Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information