Quotes About Meaning

We lists because we don't want to die.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Bu yüzden kötü bir ÅŸeye gülmek, onunla savaÅŸma isteÄŸi duymamak anlam?na gelir; iyi bir ÅŸeye gülmekse, iyiliÄŸin kendiliÄŸinden yay?lmas?n? saÄŸlayan gücü yads?mak demektir.

formal semantics has sought to expand a logic of truth conditions so as to recognize the legitimacy of metaphorical expressions - expressions that speak about the world by lying.

Est domus in terris, clara quae voce resultat. Ipsa domus resonat, tacitus sed non sonat hospes. Ambo tamen currunt, hospes simul et domus una.

Nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam.

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

Los libros no están hechos para que uno crea en ellos, sino para ser sometidos a investigación. Cuando consideramos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué significa

Kitaplar inanmak için deÄŸil, araÅŸt?rmak için yaz?l?r. Bir kitap kar??s?nda onun ne dediÄŸini deÄŸil, ne demek istediÄŸini sormal?y?z kendi kendimize.

EÄŸer doÄŸru anl?yorsam, bir ÅŸey yap?yorsunuz ve niçin yapt???n?z? biliyorsunuz, ama ne yapt???n?z?, niçin bildiÄŸinizi bilmiyorsunuz.

Bir kez daha birinin, 'Ne yap?yorsun, niçin ölüyorsun?' diye ba??rd???n? iÅŸittim. 'Ä°çimdeki bir gerçek için; onu ancak ölümle kan?tlayabilirim,' diye yan?tlad?.

What's the book about? I must admit I haven't read it. It's over five hundred pages long, which is a mistake — any defamatory work ought to be readable in half an hour. =

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means

Fire is therefore too many things and – as well as being a psychological phenomenon – it becomes a symbol, and like all symbols it is ambiguous, polysemic and evokes different meanings according to the situation.

Descubrí, pues, que una novela no tiene nada que ver, en principio, con las palabras. Escribir una novela es una tarea cosmológica, como la que se cuenta en el Génesis (ya decía Woody Allen que los modelos hay que saber elegirlos).

Vero Lettore è chi capisce che il segreto di un testo è il suo stesso vuoto.

Nel suo genere x'è un dio. X'è il genere che x'è merda.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret.

Symbol sometimes of the Devil, sometimes of the Risen Christ, no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock.

Tener un enemigo es importante no solo para definir nuestra identidad, sino también para procurarnos un obstáculo con respecto al cual medir nuestro sistema de valores y mostrar, al encararlo, nuestro valor. Por lo tanto, cuando el enemigo no existe, es preciso construirlo.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they believe in nothing. They believe in everything.

Dire che un testo virtualmente non ha limiti non significa che ogni atto interpretativo possa avere un esito felice. Per

The understanding of signs is not a mere matter of recognition (of a stable equivalence); it is a matter of interpretation.

Metaphors can be read according to multiple interpretations; yet these interpretations can be more or less legitimated on the grounds of an underlying encyclopedic competence.