Quotes About Meaning

Science is all metaphor.

la «forma» del pensamiento ecológico es al menos tan importante como su «contenido».

A symbol is a form that represents something else.

To Wiccans, a word is not reality itself. For example, the word "apple" is not itself an apple.

In God's plan, this quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him.

For this reason we can say that we all live theologically; that is, the things we believe about God and ourselves are the foundation for all the decisions we make, all the actions we take, and all the words we speak.

Language is not a human invention to be used in whatever way serves our interests. If God is the first speaker, then language is his creation. This means that our ability to speak was given to us by the Creator and it exists for his glory.

God has a bigger agenda for our relationships than we do

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

So God is not addressing Adam's workload, but rather the fact that he is a social being who lacks a suitable companion.

relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

Words can be powerful or they can be cheap. What makes words powerful is the action that flows from them. Theology also can be powerful or cheap. What makes right thinking about God powerful is the life that emerges daily from that theology.

Dr. Timothy Shutt, in the context of the Illiad, explains the larger meaning of armor in Greek culture. It is the visible reputation of the warrior -- his gravitas, his wake. This allows another warrior to go out and win victories in the armor of Achilles.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.

Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification.

Vienna School merges with the thought of Ayn Rand. She believed that competition was the meaning of life itself; Hitler said much the same thing. Such reductionism, although temptingly elegant, is fatal. If nothing matters but competition, then it is natural to eliminate people who resist it and institutions that prevent it.

The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow.

Demoralized by their inability to change their station in life, they must accept that the meaning of politics lies not in institutional reform but in daily emotion. They must stop thinking about a better future for themselves, their friends, and their families, and prefer the constant invocation of a proud past. At the top and throughout society, material inequality creates the experiences and the sentiments that can be transformed into a politics of eternity.

I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.

Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.

This impulse to preserve past knowledge by hitching narrative explanation to items exhibits what Ulrich calls the 'mnemonic power of goods.' Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.