Quotes About Meaning

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison Reform: for the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism. It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois—for the benefit of the working class.

An abundance of good friends does not lead to better philosophy .

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is, to change it

Ar m?lest?bu ir t?pat k? ar des?m: ir gan liesas c?kga?as ž?v?jumi, gan tradicion?l? Bolo?as desa. Visam ir sava vieta un noz?me.

Julia's vocabulary was chock-full of strangely archaic words - spiffing, crumbs, jeepers - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

Dear God. When did language and meaning divorce each other and decide to go their separate ways?

Fox Corner - that's what we should call the house. No one else has a house with that name and shouldn't that be the point?' 'Really?' Hugh said doubtfully. 'It's a little whimsical, isn't it? It sounds like a children's story. The House at Fox Corner .' 'A little whimsy never hurt anyone.' 'Strictly speaking, though,' Hugh said, 'can a house be a corner? Isn't it at one?' So this is marriage, Sylvie thought.

What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more"… Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

it had probably been a long enough life. Yet suddenly it all seemed like an illusion, a dream that had happened to someone else. What an odd thing existence was.

The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself." SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD

The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

It turned out that love was everything after all 

Don't seek out elaborate metaphors," her English teacher had said of her school essays, but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.