Quotes About Meaning

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

Truth implies meaning.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.

The music is not the truth.

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.