Quotes About Meaning

the Greek word literally means 'high city'

the four characters: ti-ri-po-de, meaning 'two tripods'.)

There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

De dónde provienen las palabras, que mi mano conoce y yo ignoro?

creía o decía creer que detrás de los libros, los objetos que llamamos libros, había un espíritu de clase.

La excursión por el pequeño mundo que nos rodea, el mundo de la familia, el hogar, la comida y el vestido, nos ayuda a entender la inmediatez del enjambre de símbolos que nos envuelve.

La melancolía en Nietzsche no solamente es el demonio malvado al que le pide que no se enfade porque lo reta y lo enfrenta a su voluntas, sino también la náusea ante el temor de que los grandes avances de la modernidad, con su ciencia y su tecnología, puedan socavar los fundamentos de la cultura. Para Nietzsche los humanos están sumergidos en ese dolor superior y extraño que puede darle sentido a la vida.

If God's love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus Christ), then the term is simply meaningless when attached to God. One might as well say "God is creech-creech"—a meaningless assertion.

The point is that if Christianity is compatible with anything and everything it is nothing.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.

Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't. Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur.

We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves—or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.

When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it's all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters.

If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand.

The Text is not a definitive object.