Quotes About Meaning

Der Versuch, dem objektiven Gehalt Bachs zu seinem Recht zu verhelfen, indem man die subjektive Anstrengung bloß daran wendet, das Subjekt auszumerzen, überschlägt sich. Objektivität bleibt nicht als Rest der Substraktion des Subjekts zurück.

It is the innermost nature of true interpretation to contribute to the death of its object.

It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.

Con respecto a lo negativo, el hecho de que no pueda hacer otra cosa que darle la razón me obliga a un cierto grado de laconismo.

Cuando se afirma y se subraya tal cosa sin que tal diferencia resulte de las palabras mismas, y cuando en lugar de ello, las palabras se refieren precisamente a lo que niegan tales afirmaciones, surge la sospecha de que en tales palabras se esconde precisamente lo negado. Por lo tanto, no hay que creer demasiado en esas afirmaciones.

Important artworks constantly divulge new layers, they age, grow cold and die.

Rüya, ÅŸakalar?n?n kalitesi hakk?nda tasalanmaz. Ä°yi espriler yapmak derdinde deÄŸildir; çünkü zaten herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmak istememektedir. Rüya yönelimsizdir; çünkü kendisi yönelimdir; bu nedenle rüyalar?n isabetli ya da isabetsiz olmas? söz konusu deÄŸildir.

Bir cümle bir öncekini, hakiki olmad???n? öne sürerek geçersiz k?larken, kendi de bir sonraki cümle taraf?ndan yalanlanmak üzeredir.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

It is precisely the envelopment of sex (and all other natural functions) with an aura of deeper meaning that makes man human and distinguishes him from the rest of animate nature. To remove that meaning, to reduce sex to biology, as all the sexual revolutionaries did in practice, is to return man to a level of primitive behavior of which we have no record in human history. All animals have sex, but only man makes love.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will be confused. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. Confucius's

Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.

the throwing of tantrums must stand guarantor of life's significance and meaning.

more likely that tattooing the name is a substitute for solicitude rather than evidence of it.

it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to console, to give meaning.

George Orwell once said that he wanted to turn political writing into an art:

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

what matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

The real meaning of revolution is not a change in management … but a change in man.

Writing is a communication.

Yaln?zca zenginliÄŸinizi nas?l kullanaca??n?z? bildiÄŸinizde gerçekten zengindiniz. Zengin olmak demek, parayla olduÄŸu kadar hayatla da ne yapaca??n? bilmek demekti, yaln?zca para kazanmak deÄŸildi.