Quotes About Meaning

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

Las palabras son a las cosas lo que el deseo es al objeto de deseo.

On voit que choisir la mort a ici une tout autre signification que dans les vertus héroïques. Là-bas, la mort finit par devenir une valeur et un but, car elle incarne l'absolu mieux que la vie. Ici, elle est moyen et non fin ; elle est l'ultime recours de l'individu désirant affirmer sa dignité.

La literatura utiliza las figuras retóricas como un arma en su antagonismo con el sentido puro, con la significación abstracta que han tomado las palabras en el discurso cotidiano.

Toda obra, toda novela, narra a través de la trama de los acontecimientos la historia de su propia creación, su propia historia.

If that idea of the meaningful is dropped, then you will see meaning in whatever you are doing in daily life.

But we have turned that, what you call sexual activity, which is biological in its nature, into a pleasure movement.   There must be two, you know. I love somebody and somebody else loves me. Wherever there is division, there can't be love. We are trying to bridge this gap, which is horrible for us, which has no meaning, which is demanding something from us, with this fancy idea that there must be love between these two individuals.

You are living. As soon as you introduce the question "how to live?" you have made of life a problem. "How" to live has made life meaningless. The moment you ask "how," you turn to someone for answers, becoming dependent.

Every time a thought is born, you are born. Thought in its very nature is shortlived, and once it is gone, that's the end of it. That is probably what the traditions meant by rebirth -- death and birth and death and birth. It is not that this particular entity, which is non-existing even while you are living, takes a series of births. The ending of births and deaths is the state that they are talking about.

Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to meaning. It makes sense [Sinn] to understand meaning [Sinn] as the fundamental category of human existence."29

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

One must accept that death is a part of life, even the most terrible death. And do we not live a whole life every day, and does it then make any great difference if we live a few days more or less? -Anita Goldman

The word for patience in Arabic is 'cactus'. They have the same meaning -'to endure thirst'.

Unfortunately, Baillargeon (2008) is not aware of the epistemological commitments resulting from her theory. For example, Baillargeon does not address how her theory avoids the symbol-grounding problem (i.e., the problem of explaining how representative items can have meaning)

Gallagher, 2005;

for example, in grasping a new toy, this toy is assimilated to the grasping scheme, the toy attains the functional meaning of being "graspable.

According to Piaget, infants' reactions to the bottle or other stimuli cannot be explained by external stimulus-response relations because the stimuli have a meaning for the infants to begin with; without this meaning, it would not be possible to explain why these stimuli become relevant or how the associations could be confirmed or strengthened (OI, p. 127).

It is this active relationship between the subject and the objects that are charged with meanings which creates the association and not the association which creates this relationship" (OI, p. 131).

I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

To survive, you must tell stories.