Quotes About Meaning

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Nature has made nothing in vain.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.