Meaning Quotes

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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

If you had to pick the values that would be held dear to a broad number of Hispanic voters, access to opportunity would be a higher value than guarantee of security, particularly amongst the newly arrived, meaning the last 20 years.

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.