Quotes About Meaning

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Our lives are like lace, appearing unbelievably complicated and mixed up to others. It is essential to remember that your life has to make meaning only to you.

But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It is only a small factor in the total organism/environment interaction, but it plays the crucial role of finding and making the meanings that we grow by.

When he said someone had 'died", Erd?s meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

W-what...is that?" Veronique followed his gaze. "The one I serve. That is my god. The god of pain and desire." Holmes

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phoney. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

Apart from God, life is empty and unsatisfying. D

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Color possesses me—I don't have to pursue it…. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.

God did not create us to be nobodies, but to be somebodies in communion with him through participation in Jesus' glorious story.

The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It's a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it's more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.

The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It's a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it's more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.

She said, 'Is that legal?' 'I was trained to use bigger guns than this.' Which didn't exactly answer her question.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

The key to success is having the awareness to appreciate – in the words of the French novelist Anaïs Nin 'we see the world not as it is but as we are.' It's recognizing that we see events through our own mental filters and give our own meaning to those events – a meaning which may be very different to someone else's.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.