Quotes About Meaning

Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

Propositions can only say how things are, not what they are.

Tautologies, according to Wittgenstein, are senseless, because, as they do not picture the world, they lack sense.

Wittgenstein calls tautologies and contradictions 'pseudo-propositions'; they are not real propositions, because real propositions can be either true or false.

meaningful propositions are limited to picturing states of affairs in the world, and value

Human marriage has always been intended by God to serve as a prophetic whisper of the eternal marriage. Every real marriage in the world today manages that statement to some degree, however weakly, because that is what marriage is. Very few realities in our lives bear such a sacred meaning and deserve such special consideration.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

At the conventional level, the precept of no intoxicants is understood as encouraging us to control our behavior by not using addictive substances to manipulate our state of being. Ironically, using individual effort to try to control our behavior is itself a violation of the ultimate meaning of the precept, because it is akin to manipulating our experience.

A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

I learned that you have to be careful about how you say things but not what you say.

Wanting something - wanting a career or wanting to make something - doesn't really mean much. It's about finding something you care about. Because caring is the only thing that really matters.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

My aim is always catchy songs, or songs with meaning and I want to write music people can relate to, about things anyone could go through, just real, honest music... songs that mean something, songs that are inspired by true life events.