Quotes About Meaning

All art is relationships, all art. Design is relationships. Design in a relationship between form and content... Your glasses are round. Your collar is diagonal. These are relationships. Your mouth is an oval. Your nose is a triangle - this is what design is.

In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.

Design is relationships. Design is a relationship between form and content.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

By it's mimetic intention, the world of fiction leads us to the heart of the real world of action.

Time becomes human time to the extant that it is organized after the manner of a narrative.

la vida (lo natural) no quiere todo; la palabra "todo" no tiene sentido para la vida, sino para el espíritu: el espíritu es el que quiere el "todo", el que piensa el "todo" y el que sólo descansaría en el "todo".

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

What did beauty matter, anyway?

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that's what writers do, they make contexts.

Love is a word for unfinished business, I think.

As a consequence of Wittgenstein's philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way poetry is going, it looks as if they won't be asked much longer here either. We have learned to do without God, and it looks as if we will learn to do without philosophy. It will now, alas, join the ranks of subjects which are completed (and have become completely spurious), such as alchemy, astrology, platonic love, and stylitism.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

the courage to die is the test of the courage to be.

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given.

real joy is a "severe matter"; it is the happiness of a soul which is "lifted above every circumstance.

the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable…. This is the genuine meaning of the Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of 'justification by faith