Quotes About Meaning

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.