Quotes About Meaning

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.