Quotes About Meaning

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

In Greek, phren has as its secondary meaning "the mind, as the seat of the intellect or the heart as the seat of the passions.

The President of the United States is addressed by nickname (his or his enemies') before the election and "Mr. President" after taking office. Everybody else in Washington is styled "The Honorable" to make up for what everybody outside of Washington calls them.

than many that are of no perceptible use whatever.

It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

EMPATH AFFIRMATION I vow to honor my sensitivities and treat myself lovingly as I explore what it means to be an empath and embrace my gifts. I will appreciate myself every day.

Not all dreams are psychic, and yet I believe that each one carries a personalized message that we need to hear. In one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, he asks, "Why does an eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination does while awake?

He was nothing without his family. His causes were meaningless without his family.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

If you and I are only shadows, or faulty conglomerations of the four elements, or a dance of atoms in the void, why is life so sweet?

God designed each one of us for His purpose-and God doesn't make junk.

Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicked it free, you had nothing that held you up.

Bir sanat eseri, bilinçsiz olarak söyle?ilen bir ba?ka ki?i i?levi görür.

The body knows and remembers. Architectural meaning derives from archaic responses and reactions remembered by the body and the senses.

Mimari imgelerde eyleme yönelik, eylemsel kar??la?ma an?na yönelik bir ima ya da bir amaç ve "i?lev vaadi" vard?r.

Sanatsal d??avurum, dünyan?n söz-öncesi anlamlar?yla, basitçe entelektüel olarak anla??lmaktan ziyade bedenle bütünle?mi? ve ya?anm?? anlamlarla, iç içedir.

Sanatç?lar?n ve mimarlar?n sözel ifadeleri genel olarak itibari de?erleriyle ele al?nmamal?d?r, zira ço?u zaman yüzeydeki bilinçli birer rasyonalizasyon ya da savunmadan ibarettirler ve pekala yap?ta bizzat dirimsel gücünü veren derin bilinçd??? niyetlerle keskin bir kar??tl?k bir kar??tl?k içinde olabilmektedirler.

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

Am Anfang war das Wort, am Ende das Ding.

D]ie Urenkel der Nihilisten [...] Was, wenn ihnen Bibel, Grundgesetz und Strafrecht nie mehr gegolten hätten als Anleitung und Regelbuch zu einem Gesellschafsspiel? [...] Wenn wir ihre Gründe nicht mehr verstünden, weil es keine gibt?

Ein Tier muss an nichts glauben außer an den unsinnigen Sinn des Überlebens. Allein, der pragmatische Mensch unterscheidet sich vom pragmatischen Tier in einer bedeutenden Einzelheit. Sein Spieltrieb erlischt nicht mit dem Eintritt der Geschlechtsreife. Sein Spieltrieb lebt ewig.

Die Nihilisten glaubten immerhin, dass es etwas gebe, an das sie nicht glauben konnten. [...] Wir [...] sind die Urenkel der Nihilisten.

one particular metaphysical debate, namely whether there are purposes in nature or not, and if so what they are.

When our days are shadowed and leached of meaning, when circumstances shower us with mud, how can we be sure to re-emit lessons we absorb in the sunlight?