Quotes About Meaning

Soteriological concepts are like aesthetic concepts in this respect. They're always subject to multiple interpretations, and their meaning is constituted by the communities of practice and thought in which they figure.

Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

I'm not a religious freak, but I do believe that there is a higher power.

None of my paintings I would say are religious.

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

I love my ink. They all have a meaning. I'm very strong in my faith, so I wanted to have some religious images. I've got Pieta, a Michelangelo sculpture of Mary holding Jesus after he came off the cross, on my shoulder. A sacred heart on my arm. Musical notes because I love music. The compass on my chest is there because church is my compass.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

I'm not a religious person.

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.