Quotes About Meaning

Science helps us explore the objective mysteries of life. Spirituality helps us explore the subjective mysteries of life. Science is essentially a collective enterprise through which we come to understand how the universe works. Spirituality is essentially an individual enterprise though which we come to understand the meaning of life.

We have kept the form, but lost the meaning.

Words lead us to the doorway of Truth, but only by contemplating their meaning can we pass through.

Making six-pack abs for no reason doesn't make sense. When you are young, it is possible.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

I have no intention of coaching Boca Juniors, and no-one from the club has approached me to do so.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?

Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

My husband and I eventually want to start a nonprofit and call it the Westboro Foundation. It was his idea, and I love it. I would love for Westboro to come to mean something besides 'God hates gays.'

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

'Uff da,' for the unenlightened, is Norwegian for 'oy vey' and is a common expression in Minnesotese.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

I'm not interested in business for business's sake.