Quotes About Meaning

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

To get his ducks in a row. Odd expression. Can you imagine how hard that would actually be? With real ducks?" "So he could make his killing." "Yes. But you let the cat out of the bag. Another odd turn of phrase. What sort of bastard would put a cat in a bag in the first place? What is it about us and animals?

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Nosotros solíamos decir que el cerebro sin aplicación es como la belleza sin bondad. Es un desperdicio.

Dü?manlar?n her biri; "özgürlü?ü savunmakta", "demokrasiyi sürdürmekte" ya da "adaleti desteklemekte" oldu?unu ileri sürerek tart??abilir, kavga edebilir ve hatta sava?abilir. Sorun, "özgürlük", "demokrasi" ya da "adalet" gibi sözcüklerin, farkl? insanlar için farkl? anlamlara gelmesidir; bundan dolay? da kavramlar?n kendileri sorunluymu? gibi görünmeye ba?larlar.

There is no reason per se to live. People do things from the heart, not from reason. Ther is no reason to live.

Names are deeply meaningful to your brain, and misleading names add chaos to your code.

But what am I here for?" I now felt bolder. "You're here to find out who you are. And to create your own story.

Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.

In a system of precedent, the new majority bears the weight of explaining why the constitutional vision of their predecessors was flawed and of making the case as to why theirs better captures the meaning of our fundamental law.

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

It's a weird thing to have a Hall of Fame for rock. It's weird that I spent years worshiping the Cure, and here's the Chili Peppers, and then one gets in one doesn't. It's ridiculous. In my heart of hearts, it means nothing to me, but I do understand it means a lot to other people. It creates positivity.

Nobody knows what self-radicalized means, and that's one of the weird things about the way that we talk about terrorism. We talk about radicalization as though it were a thing, as though you could sort of track it and identify it, and that's not the case.