Quotes About Meaning

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.