Quotes About Meaning

What does "righteousness" mean? First of all, it means right standing with God. Nobody has any better standing with God than you do.

The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn't need to be read. You don't have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you don't even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Here's every word I spoke for a week. Here's a year's worth of weather reports... and without ever having to read these things, you understand them.

ZOS and Scire had a fierce argument as to who had been to the Witches' Sabbath, what the Witches' Sabbath actually was, and so on. Scire drew his magical athame and showed ZOS the strange characters on the hilt. ZOS should have blanched before them but he didn't, saying he "knew all them symbols and more

as Clowney well notes, "we must recognize that this is not spiritualization in our usual sense of the word, but the very opposite. In Christ is realization. It is not so much that Christ fulfills what the temple means; rather Christ is the meaning for which the temple existed."[139

In our time', Thomas Mann remarked, 'the destiny of man presents its meaning in political terms.

What is the function of man? Surely the sheep can get along without him; horses run better wild; rifles make nothing; of what good are banks when ninety-nine percent of us have no money?—I have said: what are we on earth for? WE SERVE NO PURPOSE IN NATURE. It is my guess that we are slated for extinction.

Yours truly" benefits from a lack of any specific silly meaning. It is as rooted in convention as "Dear George," and useful for that reason.

Ultimately, each of us will have to determine for ourselves who Jesus is and what he represents. For me, he is an artist of life, and what he teaches is the fine art of living. Perhaps this is my bias; perhaps it is not.

For the word "full" when used in connection with the fulness of the Spirit, the word "controlled" is used, for that is what the word means in such a context. For instance, "Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost" (Luke 4:1, A.V.) becomes "Jesus, in the control of the Holy Spirit." The word "master,

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

we are justifying poetry by 'proving' that it is something else, just as, I believe, we have justified religion with the discovery that it is science."4

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The most we can do is to die--contented, discontent; With a few to wonder why, and whither our spirit went, And what the interval meant!

Words are hoops Through which to leap upon meanings, Which are horses' backs, Bare, moving.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without the absurdity of speculating upon another.

Joe had always considered individual words as finite unites of currency, and he believed in savings. He never wanted to waste or unnecessarily expends words. To Joe, words meant things. They should be spent wisely.

the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning.

After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book has, the less literature there is in it.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.

Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable-perhaps everything."-Memories, Dreams, Reflections