Quotes About Meaning

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

You said, 'Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.

The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul.

metaphysical emotion, is a plot to nothingness

Even in the richer countries, what happens at work can make people fulfilled, bored, valued or stressed. At the deepest level work shapes who we are.

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life from being a total waste, like one constant jacking-off party.

Without birds, where would we have learned that there can be song in the heart?

The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe.

Personally, I'd like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it's going to be so overloaded with meanings it's just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

Swallow your apologies. None of them mean shit to me. And all you have these days are bad days.

Write so simply that any other officer who knows nothing of the subject can still understand you. To do this, avoid confusion and give words their ordinary meanings.

Without choice, love would be rendered meaningless. God is neither a cosmic rapist who forces his love on people, nor is he a cosmic puppeteer who forces people to love him. Instead, God, the personification of love, grants us the freedom to revel in his love or to loathe him. Such freedom provides a persuasive polemic for the existence of hell. If there is freedom then there must also be hell.

PorzÄ…dek historyczny okazuje siÄ™ tylko porzÄ…dkiem umierania.

Tylko literatura mo?e uprzytomni? ?wiatu jego nienormalno??. Nie historia... tylko literatura.

It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain eventually by implication that last word which we expect from the "day of judgment."

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.