Quotes About Meaning

Whatever the circumstance, there are seeds of meaning, even to our very last breath.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps, are all a clear because to a clear why.

A generation ago it was the fashion to declare that we should not look for any meaning in a picture, we should be content with its "significant form." An artist was praised for painting his mother as if she had been a piece of cheese. But the human mind is strangely recalcitrant to such theories. It persists in taking an interest in the "subject" of a picture.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

Turning something into a ritual eliminates the question, Why am I doing this?

Entonces, dijiste algo que nunca olvidé. Dijiste que estar con él hacía la vida más significativa, y que cuando se iba, llegaba el otoño a tu corazón.

What do years have to do with this feeling we have? They're just... just numbers.

When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

Mas apenas eleições não fazem uma democracia. Democracia quer dizer poder para o povo, mas poder quer dizer algo mais que apenas eleições. Em nossa tradição isso também significa controle através de críticas racionais.

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

Analyzing the name of a thing can thus reveal something about the thing itself. The same thinking forms the basis of that branch of Jewish Kabbalah known as gematria, and its Christian versions that were explored in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

A painting did not have to be beautiful; it had to be true. Then it was beautiful.

Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Each of us has only a quantum of compassion ... if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story.

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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.