1,900 Quotes About Meaning

It is possible that pain is the thing that tells me that I’m living when I see it as the thing that tells me that I’m dying?

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly."You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful.""Memory does play tricks on us.""No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary.

The world is full of shit, inestimable horrible shit, and I have no intention of participating or drowning in that shit, so I transcend from it by creatively making my own shit meaningful, purposeful, and, as much as possible, sublimely beautiful.