Quotes About Meaning

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.