Meaning Quotes

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.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

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