Meaning Quotes

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.