Quotes About Meaning

while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

Therefore he had either to affirm the transcendent ideals of democracy and his own dignity by aiding those who despised him, or accept his situation as hopelessly devoid of meaning; a choice tantamount to rejecting his own humanity.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Every word was once a poem.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

Life is our dictionary

His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.

The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

It is not length of life, but depth of life

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most

Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

The Purpose-Guided Universe by Bernard Haisch and You Are the Universe by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

Literature is a heap of nouns and verbs enclosing an intuition or two

Language is fossil poetry

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.