Quotes About Meaning

There is one thing, and one thing only, you can do for me," said Lopez. His voice was peculiarly sweet, and when he spoke his words seemed to mean more than when they came from other mouths. But Mr. Wharton did not like sweet voices and mellow, soft words, — at least not from men's mouths.

All suffering is relative to experience, and life while it is everything is also not much at all.

She read on and on, enraptured. She could not understand half, but it excited her oddly, like words in a foreign language sung to a beautiful air. She followed the poem vaguely as she followed the Latin in her missal, guessing, inventing meanings for herself, intoxicated by the mere rush of words. And yet she felt she did understand, not with her eyes or her brain, but with some faculty she did not even know she possessed.

And it was as if all these details were connected, that they were like the separate letters of a word in an unknown language and that, if only she could understand the word, she would understand everything.

It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I unhinge.

When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

I know that I believe in ETERNAL LIFE, and that I believe here in its entire meaning. I regret to live in a world where witches and wizards hide, and moreover, where there are so few true wizards.

All those who have vantage points in their spirit... ; all those who are masters of their language; all those for whom words have a meaning; all those for whom there exist sublimities in the soul and currents of thought; all those who are the spirit of the times, and have named these currents of thought -- and I am thinking of their precise works, of that automatic grinding that delivers their spirit to the winds -- are pigs.

There is nothing more useless than a organ. When you have given him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatisms and restored him to his true liberty.

Uzam, zaman, boyut, oluÅŸ, gelecek, ilerisi, varl?k, varolmay??, ben, ben olmayan, hiçbir ÅŸey ifade etmiyorlar bana.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

In 1905, the Supreme Court of the United States applied the rule to the country's founding document: "The Constitution is a written instrument. As such its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted it means now.

As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes put it: "We do not inquire what the legislature meant; we ask only what the statute means.

Words change meaning over time, and often in unpredictable ways. Queen Anne is said (probably apocryphally) to have commented about Sir Christopher Wren's architecture at St. Paul's Cathedral that it was awful, artificial, and amusing—by which she meant that it was awe-inspiring, highly artistic, and thought-provoking.

The truth hidden by projection. Too bad he'll never understand what his subconscious is trying to tell him.

Usted cree que el mundo entero es metáfora de algo?

I've come to realize one thing, that stories are always bigger than we are, they happen to us and we are their protagonists without realizing it, but in the stories we live, we aren't the true protagonists, the true protagonist is the story itself.

He then 'went off to have a rest', which was often a Soviet euphemism for incapacity through alcohol.

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

There is something of value in trying to put the world into words.

Treba se, dakle, baviti filozofijom ili se oprostiti od života i oti?i odavde, jer sve ostalo je golema besmislica i naklapanje.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.